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If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy? — Orson Scott Card

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. — Orson Scott Card

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. — Orson Scott Card

what cannot be shunned must be embraced. — Orson Scott Card

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. — Orson Scott Card

I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond. — Orson Scott Card

We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message? — Orson Scott Card

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ? — Orson Scott Card

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

Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room. — Orson Scott Card

And you be crazy too ... — Orson Scott Card

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it. — Orson Scott Card

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. — Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. — Orson Scott Card

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better. — Orson Scott Card

So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'
'About right,' Bean replied. — Orson Scott Card

Flattery is never so obvious to the recipient. — Orson Scott Card

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes. — Orson Scott Card

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. — Orson Scott Card

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa. — Orson Scott Card

We're an ecological disaster."
"Exactly," said the expendable. — Orson Scott Card

Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak. — Orson Scott Card

Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn. — Orson Scott Card

[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

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game. — Orson Scott Card

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. — Orson Scott Card

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone! — Orson Scott Card

Because human nature never changes. — Orson Scott Card

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine — Orson Scott Card

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none. — Orson Scott Card

I have tasted the heat of stars, and all of them are sweet. — Orson Scott Card

The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him. — Orson Scott Card

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam. — Orson Scott Card

Love is random; fear is inevitable. — Orson Scott Card

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams. — Orson Scott Card

Power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it. — 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

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed. — Orson Scott Card

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all. — Orson Scott Card

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. — Orson Scott Card

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. — Orson Scott Card

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. — Orson Scott Card

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now. — Orson Scott Card

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

A broken clock is right two times a day. — Orson Scott Card

but you can't preserve at all. — Orson Scott Card

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of. — Orson Scott Card

That's the problem with Peter," said Theresa.
"Only the one?" said Peter. — Orson Scott Card

You can't answer what I said, so you're going to talk about my saying it. — Orson Scott Card

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not, — Orson Scott Card

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. — Orson Scott Card

Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash. — Orson Scott Card

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it. — Orson Scott Card

Withholding a decision is a decision. — Orson Scott Card

And all I managed, barely, was endurance. — Orson Scott Card

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts. — Orson Scott Card

And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway, — Orson Scott Card

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. — Orson Scott Card

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. — Orson Scott Card

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap. — Orson Scott Card

The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said. — Orson Scott Card

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

Don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope — Orson Scott Card

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all. — Orson Scott Card

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card

There's no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment. — Orson Scott Card

Ain't spacetime a bitch," said Ram. "Noted," said the expendable. "Nineteen times. — 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

If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you. — Orson Scott Card

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. — Orson Scott Card

I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card

There wasn't a trace of thrusters now. — Orson Scott Card

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery. — Orson Scott Card

In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. — Orson Scott Card

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. — Orson Scott Card

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop. — Orson Scott Card

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly. — Orson Scott Card

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world. — Orson Scott Card

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. — Orson Scott Card

Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin? — 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

I hear they whip you for stealing."
"Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in. — Orson Scott Card

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture. — Orson Scott Card

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man. — Orson Scott Card

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

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action. — Orson Scott Card

you'll dream, too. — Orson Scott Card

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card

This is why I should have had a son of my own, thought Ender. To lean on me when he was small, and then for me to lean on when I'm old. — Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings. — Orson Scott Card

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. * — Orson Scott Card

The only way to learn is by changing your mind. — Orson Scott Card

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. — Orson Scott Card

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. — Orson Scott Card

It is not the rituals of worship that please the gods. — Orson Scott Card