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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
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ender
ender-wiggin
life-lessons
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Orson Scott Card |
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Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly.
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ender-wiggin
graff
killing
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Orson Scott Card |
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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ender
ender-wiggin
strategy
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Orson Scott Card |
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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
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ender-wiggin
helplessness
pain
peter-wiggin
power
will-to-power
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Orson Scott Card |
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"I thought commanders could order anything." "They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you."
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ender-quintet
ender-wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.
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ender-wiggin
graff
isolation
loneliness
resentment
soldier
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Orson Scott Card |
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Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
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ender-wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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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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ender-wiggin
the-speaker
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Orson Scott Card |
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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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ender-wiggin
valentine
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Orson Scott Card |