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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Orson Scott Card
Heart, Battle, Warfare
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.184, Macmillan

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

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Moments, That Moment, Our Lives
Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.339, Macmillan

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Orson Scott Card
Heart, Soul, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1034, Macmillan

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Father, Names
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Clever, Fate
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.207, Macmillan

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Orson Scott Card
Wisdom, Mind, Way

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

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Training, Important, No Hope

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Orson Scott Card
War, Suffering, Careful
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

Orson Scott Card
Eye, Stories, World
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card
Winning, Firsts, Winner
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.206, Macmillan

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Orson Scott Card
Wickedness, Way, Surprise
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.133, Macmillan

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

Orson Scott Card
Hurt, Lying, People
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Orson Scott Card
Doubt, Politics, No Doubt
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.339, Macmillan

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

Orson Scott Card
World, Payment, Folks
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.237, Macmillan

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Tape, Bags
"Treasure Box". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 1996.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

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Children, Liberty, Citizens

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

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Hurt, Men, Good Man
Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.281, Del Rey

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card
Writing, Concentration, Listening To Music

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Orson Scott Card
Travel, Eye, Journey
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.548, Tor Science Fiction

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott Card
Crazy, Mets
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.183, Macmillan

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

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Sneak In, Credit, Way
Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.119, Macmillan

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Orson Scott Card
Australia, Asteroids
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Shadow Of The Giant: Book 4 of the Shadow Saga”, p.144, Hachette UK

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Orson Scott Card
Faces, Staring, Ultimate
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.242, Macmillan

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

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Knowing, May, Bears
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.87, Macmillan

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

Orson Scott Card
Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

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