Top 100 Quotes About Orson Scott Card
#1. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.
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#2. If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
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#4. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.
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#5. Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
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#6. Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths
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#7. Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
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#8. Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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#9. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.
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#10. Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
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#11. The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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#12. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
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#13. We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?
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#14. Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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#15. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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#16. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
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#17. Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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#18. I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender
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#19. You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."
That's right," said Miro.
Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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#20. Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.
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#21. A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.
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#23. Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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#24. We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
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#25. He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.
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#26. Could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him; a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed
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#27. The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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#28. One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
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#29. Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
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#30. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive
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#31. I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
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#32. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.
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#33. I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.
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#34. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
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#36. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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#37. 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
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#38. I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
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#39. When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.
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#40. It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share.
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#41. Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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#42. Your dream is a good one. [ ... ] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.
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#43. The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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#44. Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.
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#45. Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?
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#46. To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
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#47. Maybe we're assigning Achilles supernatural powers," said Petra. "He isn't a god. Not even a hero. Just a sick kid." "No," said Bean. "I'm a sick kid. He's the devil." "Well, so," said Petra, "maybe the devil's a sick kid.
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#49. The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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#50. Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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#51. I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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#52. The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world.
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#53. You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.
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#54. It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)
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#55. I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."
I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
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#61. A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
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#62. We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books.
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#64. Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.
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#65. The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.
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#66. But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
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#67. So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.
I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."
That's nice," she said ...
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#68. To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
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#69. Anything that is possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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#70. If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done.
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#71. Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.
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#72. Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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#73. Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid.
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#74. I just don't know if people actually perceive which events are miracles and which are not. There are no doubt many miracles claimed which were not miracles at all. There are also probably many miracles that no one recognized when they occurred.
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#75. It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.
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#77. If he was to get any real help from them, they would have to break out of those old patterns and reach new conclusions.
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#79. For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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#80. God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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#82. It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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#83. Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
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#84. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
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#85. You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!
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#86. You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
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#87. Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
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#88. Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
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#89. Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
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#90. Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
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#91. Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.
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#93. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.
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#94. That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.
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#96. The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.
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#97. He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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#98. Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
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#99. 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
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#100. We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
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