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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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Orson Scott Card |
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None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.
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Orson Scott Card |
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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
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Orson Scott Card |
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405e48a
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy."
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stupidity
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Orson Scott Card |
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d2e4b8d
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An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
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Orson Scott Card |
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
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reality
science-fiction
home
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Orson Scott Card |
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It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness."
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pain
shadow-puppets
love
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Orson Scott Card |
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That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apar..
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loss
friendship
ender
walls
separation
game
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.
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faith
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Orson Scott Card |
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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practicing
training
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Orson Scott Card |
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Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.
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manipulation
force
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Orson Scott Card |
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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds
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earth
nature
life
revelations
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Orson Scott Card |
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People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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Orson Scott Card |
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The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
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Orson Scott Card |
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A broken clock is right two times a day.
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Orson Scott Card |
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All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better-- So why do I hate my life?
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Orson Scott Card |
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
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humanity
reality
real-boy
pinocchio
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Orson Scott Card |
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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
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love
depressing
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Orson Scott Card |
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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Orson Scott Card |
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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learning
life
winning
survival
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Orson Scott Card |
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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.
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Orson Scott Card |
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yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system
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Orson Scott Card |
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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
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death-and-dying
life-and-living
sister-carlotta
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Orson Scott Card |
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And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in the very moment when I love them--" "You beat them." For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding. "No, you don't understand. I..
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Orson Scott Card |
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You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graff"
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hate
love
inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
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Orson Scott Card |
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway."
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Orson Scott Card |
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As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Wiggin really doesn't care as much about himself as he does about these other kids who aren't worth five minutes of his time. And yet this may be the very trait that makes everyone focus on him. Maybe this is why all those stories Sister Carlotta told him, Jesus always had a crowd around him.Maybe this is why I'm so afraid of Wiggen. Because the alien, not me. He's the unintelligible one, the unpredictable one. He's the one who doesn't do..
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Orson Scott Card |
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Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.
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hate
self-loathing
lesson
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Orson Scott Card |
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Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It's so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is, war isn't about killing. It's about getting the enemy to stop resisting your will. Like training a dog not to bite. Punishing him leaves you with a beaten dog. Killing him is a permanent solution, but you've got no dog. If you can understand ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
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Orson Scott Card |
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This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
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Orson Scott Card |
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.
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Orson Scott Card |