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Orson Scott Card Quotes

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American Writer August 24, 1951

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Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin Orson Scott Card
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them. Orson Scott Card
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."But it keeps not ending."So far, so good. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at..."
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. Orson Scott Card
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. Orson Scott Card
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. Orson Scott Card
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. Orson Scott Card
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be. Orson Scott Card
And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time."- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Ch. 15 Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic..."
What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time..."
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. Orson Scott Card
[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "What a waste of time to be posthumously famous."
What a waste of time to be posthumously famous. Orson Scott Card
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited... Orson Scott Card
So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable."The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail. Orson Scott Card

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