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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.


Orson Scott Card

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ORSON SCOTT CARD It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...
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ORSON SCOTT CARD Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a te...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In order to learn, one must change one's mind
ORSON SCOTT CARD Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue,
ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
ORSON SCOTT CARD For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest so...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The enemy's gate is down.
ORSON SCOTT CARD "Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that come...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes
ORSON SCOTT CARD [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (an...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the musi...
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 b...
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 ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
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