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Orson Scott Card Quotes

Orson Scott Card quotes about life

American Writer August 24, 1951

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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the..."
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. Orson Scott Card
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life..."
That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings. Orson Scott Card
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide. Orson Scott Card
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are. Orson Scott Card
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something. Orson Scott Card
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Will people really go?” “People always go. Always. They always..."
Will people really go?” “People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world. Orson Scott Card
I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender."
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. Orson Scott Card
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything..."
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life? Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Life is a suicide mission."
Life is a suicide mission. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is..."
Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it. Orson Scott Card

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