Orson Scott Card quotes - page 13

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. (Orson Scott Card)
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. View quote
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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. View quote
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better. View quote
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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do. View quote
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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. View quote
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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. View quote
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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. View quote
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I am a creature of chemicals. (Orson Scott Card)
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. View quote
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future. View quote
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope. View quote
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Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable. View quote
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death. View quote
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons. View quote
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When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god. View quote
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You're such a liar.” "But I'm a beautiful liar, don't you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend. "I don't understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. "Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can't see what he's interested in anyhow. View quote
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all? View quote
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How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did? (Orson Scott Card)
Am I hired?” "There is no legal way you can get me out of paying that much of my taxes.” "On the contrary, Mr. Wiggin. The tax laws are designed to trick people into paying more than they have to. That way the rich who are in the know get to take advantage of drastic tax breaks, while those who don't have such good connections and haven't yet found an accountant who does are tricked into paying ludicrously higher amounts. View quote
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Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?" "Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers." "Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask? View quote
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father? View quote
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them. View quote
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