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The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.
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story
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Orson Scott Card |
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Madness, and then illumination.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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Orson Scott Card |
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You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me"
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Orson Scott Card |
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If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into foul shape by fate or God or evolution. If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other. But still we welcome you now as guestfriends. Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwel..
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evolution
hive-queen
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As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes
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Orson Scott Card |
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A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. There is a familiar version of this story, but a friend of mine - a Speaker for the Dead - has told me of two other Rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I'm going to tell you. The Rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out o..
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life
law
forgiveness
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Orson Scott Card |
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9a34e9a
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Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
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Orson Scott Card |
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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God."
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Orson Scott Card |
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Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
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soldiers
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Orson Scott Card |
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK."
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Orson Scott Card |
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We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.
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science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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Orson Scott Card |
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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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knowledge
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Orson Scott Card |
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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
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courage
hostage
luxury
enemies
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Orson Scott Card |
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c33a892
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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
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poem
song
tender
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
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inspiration
life-lessons
ender
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Orson Scott Card |
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c7b250c
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
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teaching
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Orson Scott Card |
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And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
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stupidity
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Orson Scott Card |
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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.
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Orson Scott Card |
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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two-heads-are-better-than-one
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Orson Scott Card |
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You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
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Orson Scott Card |
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You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me."
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Orson Scott Card |
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Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
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persona
genealogy
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Orson Scott Card |
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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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Orson Scott Card |
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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love
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Orson Scott Card |
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Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just ..
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personhood
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Orson Scott Card |
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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
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graff
wicked-witch-of-the-west
gingerbread
promise
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Orson Scott Card |
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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 t..
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Orson Scott Card |
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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending
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Orson Scott Card |
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I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would."
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love
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Orson Scott Card |
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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 you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The enemy gate is down.
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Orson Scott Card |
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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relationships
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Orson Scott Card |
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Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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Orson Scott Card |
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
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Orson Scott Card |
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67c4b5e
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That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."
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