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Orson Scott Card quotes: I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine? Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?
Orson Scott Card quotes: There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card quotes: the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I
Orson Scott Card quotes: I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this. I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
Orson Scott Card quotes: It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card quotes: To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins - thoroughly. Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins - thoroughly.
Orson Scott Card quotes: You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile. You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely. I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.
Orson Scott Card quotes: some wounds aren't so easily healed. some wounds aren't so easily healed.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Anton: "You're asking me?"Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal. Anton: "You're asking me?"
Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.
Orson Scott Card quotes: don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map. don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.
Orson Scott Card quotes: There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all. There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
Orson Scott Card quotes: He always told the truth, but he didn't always tell it all. He always told the truth, but he didn't always tell it all.
Orson Scott Card quotes: You might change the propsand the actors, the play of human history is always the same You might change the props
and the actors, the play of human history is always the same
Orson Scott Card quotes: Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
Orson Scott Card quotes: How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Orson Scott Card quotes: A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you. Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Life is a suicide mission. Life is a suicide mission.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Orson Scott Card quotes: But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong. But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world. Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans. Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ... Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ...
Orson Scott Card quotes: A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer. A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us. The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.
Orson Scott Card quotes: That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you. That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing. Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK. I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others. Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.
Orson Scott Card quotes: When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French. When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become. Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.
Orson Scott Card quotes: None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them. When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else. Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later. Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
Orson Scott Card quotes: It's laugh or cry," said Rigg."Cry then. Give the old man his due. It's laugh or cry," said Rigg.
"Cry then. Give the old man his due.
Orson Scott Card quotes: [H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself. [H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.
Orson Scott Card quotes: 'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'. 'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros."~Sel Menach Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros."
~Sel Menach
Orson Scott Card quotes: If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing. If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.Ender stopped. "Not from them. We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.
Ender stopped. "Not from them.
Orson Scott Card quotes: It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud. It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
Orson Scott Card quotes: Human beings remain grubs all the lives. Human beings remain grubs all the lives.
Orson Scott Card quotes: He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets. Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.
Orson Scott Card quotes: It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share. It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share.
Orson Scott Card quotes: long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories). long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories).
Orson Scott Card quotes: Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Orson Scott Card quotes: Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way. Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Lightspeed travel between worlds had let him skip like a stone over the surface of time. Lightspeed travel between worlds had let him skip like a stone over the surface of time.
Orson Scott Card quotes: The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank. The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrorswe hopeof your life come from reading fiction. Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction.
Orson Scott Card quotes: As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But
Orson Scott Card quotes: I have tasted the heat of stars, and all of them are sweet. I have tasted the heat of stars, and all of them are sweet.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Stories are invented as you go along... Stories are invented as you go along...
Orson Scott Card quotes: but you can't preserve at all. but you can't preserve at all.
Orson Scott Card quotes: There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of. There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.
Orson Scott Card quotes: So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.''About right,' Bean replied. So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'
'About right,' Bean replied.
Orson Scott Card quotes: [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.
Orson Scott Card quotes: And all I managed, barely, was endurance. And all I managed, barely, was endurance.
Orson Scott Card quotes: There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
Orson Scott Card quotes: How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character? How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character?
Orson Scott Card quotes: I've thought of all the questions," said Father."That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.
Orson Scott Card quotes: You really are playing God." "I most certainly am not playing. You really are playing God." "I most certainly am not playing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones. Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
Orson Scott Card quotes: We're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake.a habit We're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake.
a habit
Orson Scott Card quotes: Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing. Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
Orson Scott Card quotes: If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask. If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.
And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for. I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Orson Scott Card quotes: As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating. As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.
Orson Scott Card quotes: ... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work. ... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card quotes: We need you to help us figure out how you can help us. We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.
Orson Scott Card quotes: I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott Card quotes: When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds. When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
Orson Scott Card quotes: A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
Orson Scott Card quotes: Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
Orson Scott Card quotes: That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends. That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
Orson Scott Card quotes: People get used to anything, if it just goes on. People get used to anything, if it just goes on.
Orson Scott Card quotes: And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them. And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

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