Orson Scott Card Quotes - Page 10

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• Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

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  Girl, Stupid, Kind

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• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

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  Eye, College, Training

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• Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

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  Life, Running, Morning

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.139, Macmillan

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• I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

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  Running, Honesty, War

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• That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

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  Winning, Problem, Ender

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.145, Macmillan

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• The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

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  Wisdom, Mind, Way

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• The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

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  Children, Thinking, People

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.111, Macmillan

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• He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

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  Soldier, Too Much, Larger Than Life

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

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  Fear, War, Light

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.76, Macmillan

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• But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

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  War, Winning, Stupidity

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.117, Macmillan

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• "We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

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  Ender, Said, Devoted

  "Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga". Book by Orson Scott Card, September, 2005.

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• This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

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  Stupid, Feelings, Nausea

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

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• Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

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  Strong, Selfish, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.185, Macmillan

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• 'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

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  Ruthlessness, Enders Game, Peter

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.35, Macmillan

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• He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

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  Eye, Lips, Giants

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.56, Macmillan

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• 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

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  Lasts, Ruthlessness, Favors

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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• I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

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  Children, Crazy, Book

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.134, Macmillan

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• But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

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  Winning, Naughty, Risk

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

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• I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

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  Kissing, Doors, Bye

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.123, Macmillan

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• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

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  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

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  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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• When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

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  Men, Giving, Needs

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

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  Rivers, Body, Dumped Her

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• If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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  Valentine, Today, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.15, Macmillan

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• You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

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  World, Littles, Helping

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.410, Macmillan

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