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I've always performed magic as a kid.
— Michael Carbonaro
Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.
— Orson Bean
It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.
— Steve Hamilton
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
— Frank Drake
Don't launch it," said Bean into his microphone, head down. "Set it off inside your ship. God be with you.
— Orson Scott Card
You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.
— Orson Scott Card
Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? 'Of course,' Ender said contemptuously. 'I'm not as close to the floor as you are.
— Orson Scott Card
Once you get a brother, you don't give him up easy.
— Orson Scott Card
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
— Orson Scott Card
Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.
— Orson Scott Card
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
— Angela Lansbury
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
— Renee Fleming
How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.
— Orson Scott Card
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
— Orson Scott Card
What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
— Orson Scott Card
The future has a lot to do with the past.
— Dwight Yoakam
I read in self-defense.
— Woody Allen
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
— Orson Scott Card
I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
— Orson Scott Card
Maybe when you loved someone, you just let yourself be you. You let them see you. And you saw them. Maybe that was all there was to it.
— Ruthie Knox
But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?
— Orson Scott Card
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.
— Orson Scott Card
So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'
'About right,' Bean replied. — Orson Scott Card
'About right,' Bean replied. — Orson Scott Card
If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.
— Orson Scott Card
And that," said Bean, "is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.
— Orson Scott Card
What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.
— Orson Scott Card
The problem with normal was that normal had been shot through. Normal wasn't possible. Normal hadn't even been that great.
— Anonymous
The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
— Orson Scott Card
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
Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.
— Orson Bean
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
— Orson Scott Card
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