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6ef1d62
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Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
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killing
genius
humans
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Orson Scott Card |
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4cc0e3a
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No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b6f4d38
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If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty."
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Orson Scott Card |
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1fcafdc
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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Orson Scott Card |
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7d02a8b
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I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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000f6dd
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I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took responsibility for other people and it didn't seem to matter to him how much it cost him. And in the end, while he could never make the Ribeira family normal, he gave us peace and pride and identity. Stability. He married Mother and was kind to he..
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Orson Scott Card |
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bf651cc
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A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
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young-adult
reputation
science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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aad77d8
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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them. So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings and work with them like a perfect machine, as perfect as the buggers. But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing..
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Orson Scott Card |
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a619786
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So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.
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truth-of-life
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Orson Scott Card |
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97fc531
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Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I"
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Orson Scott Card |
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538d1a9
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It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.
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live
responsibility
good
life
small
young
childhood
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Orson Scott Card |
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dd3f569
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Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
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poke
regret
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Orson Scott Card |
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9d9d003
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b9d802d
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I am only what I remember.
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Orson Scott Card |
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1499c65
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You don't want to give God the credit because you don't think he exists. But if you're going to blame him for all the crap, kid, you got to give him credit for what grows from that fertilized soil.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b6307d4
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Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and become one of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there. 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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ac942e3
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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
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Orson Scott Card |
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9621c7c
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I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c2a1fa2
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Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d5e5fa4
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If the act is evil, the actor is evil.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c269133
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I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease..."
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Orson Scott Card |
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243789c
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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too-hard
lost-opportunity
sleeping-beauty
princess
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Orson Scott Card |
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0d1d6cf
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And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.
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Orson Scott Card |
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7bfe2dc
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As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is "descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there." Willingness is the single most important test."
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Orson Scott Card |
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7337ff0
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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then ..
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comeuppance
enderverse
julian-delphinki
osc
pwn
pwned
shadow-saga
suriyawong
achilles-de-flandres
bean
own
owned
just-desserts
payback
justice
betrayal
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Orson Scott Card |
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3baa317
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Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
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humor
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Orson Scott Card |
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1cf454b
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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Orson Scott Card |
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8b8aa33
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Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
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human
life
love
friend
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Orson Scott Card |
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ca886dd
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.
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hive-queen
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Orson Scott Card |
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17e75a6
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Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
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violence
science
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Orson Scott Card |
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9c1ee5f
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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...
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hate
life
love
enemy
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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b852d0a
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When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
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war
live
ender
enemy
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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98988d7
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He couldn't go into his army's barracks -- he had long since learned that the best commanders stay away unless they have some reason to visit. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk, and act, and think.
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Orson Scott Card |
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9e4123c
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Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
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life
ender
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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c0ab7e8
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As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."
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humor
love
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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9a6f52c
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You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'
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literature
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Orson Scott Card |
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6617b7d
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Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or pr..
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Orson Scott Card |
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1bdbb0a
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someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up
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poetry
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Orson Scott Card |
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20cdb94
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The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition." "You mean it isn't ugly?"
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Orson Scott Card |
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95b61ab
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Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.
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Orson Scott Card |
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ebf8789
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He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself. He was afraid, and fear made him serious.
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Orson Scott Card |
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5628b87
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If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing."
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Orson Scott Card |
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dbeb597
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
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prophet
red
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Orson Scott Card |
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e481afd
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But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
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history
loss-of-innocence
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Orson Scott Card |