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Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world.
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Orson Scott Card |
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We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.
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Orson Scott Card |
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4d22f9c
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The piggies were not to be disturbed-
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enders-game
piggies
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Orson Scott Card |
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73f7c38
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But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off.
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Orson Scott Card |
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022e66e
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Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
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Orson Scott Card |
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11c67b3
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The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.
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Orson Scott Card |
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There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e0adeb0
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There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.
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science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD. -Petra
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Human beings are just machines, Petra knew that, machines that do what you want them to do, if you only know the levers to pull. And no matter how complex people might seem, if you just cut them off from the network of people who give shape to their personality, the communities that form their identity, they'll be reduced to that set of levers. Doesn't matter how hard they resist, or how well they know they're being manipulated. Eventually,..
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Orson Scott Card |
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You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in."
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religion
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Ela reached out for Grego. He refused to go to her. Instead he did exactly what Ender expected, what he had prepared for. Grego turned in Ender's relaxed grip, flung his arms around the neck of the speaker for the dead, and wept bitterly, hysterically. Ender spoke gently to the others, who watched helplessly. "How could he show his grief to you, when he thought you hated him?" "We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said..
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Orson Scott Card |
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I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the one next to it also falls. But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but ..
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understanding
hate-crimes
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Orson Scott Card |
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37d0f70
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Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
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ender
jane
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Orson Scott Card |
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I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was. "Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you." That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked. "Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant."
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unfulfilled
wishes
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Orson Scott Card |
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ac3079c
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I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.
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genius
games
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Orson Scott Card |
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6889189
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The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
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war
live
world
life
truth
genius
game
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Orson Scott Card |
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a781adf
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For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
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personality
feelings
life
ender
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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c742774
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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.
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life
truth
genius
trick
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Orson Scott Card |
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a6daa33
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A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.
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Orson Scott Card |
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572d80a
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For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3a6701e
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He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it
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games
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Orson Scott Card |
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7b5b7a9
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So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserable tyrant I had to call Father. How many unbelievably stupid heroes in stories did insanely dangerous things because they were in love? More to the pint, how many insane things am I going to do because of it?
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Orson Scott Card |
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ae79f7f
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the cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b82e32b
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Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.
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Orson Scott Card |
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2126391
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I've thought of all the questions," said Father. "That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones."
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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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loneliness
graff
ender-wiggin
soldier
isolation
resentment
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Orson Scott Card |
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d91f648
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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
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home
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Orson Scott Card |
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cb13c28
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It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b541e8a
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A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c05d2e1
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The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him."
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steadfastness
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Orson Scott Card |
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I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence...You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions.
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spirituality
religion
mythology
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Orson Scott Card |
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7ad40b1
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He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e25806a
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Just one more example of why a commander who ruled by fear and made all the decisions himself would always be beaten, sooner or later.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward--startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!"
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Orson Scott Card |
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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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Orson Scott Card |
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da93004
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We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand." Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then."
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Orson Scott Card |
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a67d393
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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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7ec918c
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Might-have-beens are a bitch.
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Orson Scott Card |
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ac18fdb
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I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.
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miro
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Orson Scott Card |
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15c9a63
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You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling--Demosthenes merely drops the accent from the Nordic framling. This is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another specie..
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Orson Scott Card |
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42bf89c
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And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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8fe86b5
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Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that's why. Everyone believes they're smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justified than everyone else. Humility went extinct a long time ago.
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