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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego."
"You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.


Orson Scott Card

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will always be
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quiet.
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Beware of those who are bitter,
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In yourself
Your tiny self

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ORSON SCOTT CARD God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, becom...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your fac...
ORSON SCOTT CARD 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...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside t...
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 Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the le...
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.
ORSON SCOTT CARD