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Orson Scott Card quotes

American Writer August 24, 1951

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Orson Scott Card quote: "I listen to music constantly while writing."
I listen to music constantly while writing. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen to what people meant,..."
It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday. -Bean"
How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday. -Bean Orson Scott Card
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics. Orson Scott Card
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third. Orson Scott Card
Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable. Orson Scott Card
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. Orson Scott Card
When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions. Orson Scott Card
As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson Orson Scott Card
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. Orson Scott Card
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. Orson Scott Card
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the..."
the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, Orson Scott Card
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often. Orson Scott Card
This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well. Orson Scott Card

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