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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

Orson Scott Card
People, Judging, Appearance
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.100, Macmillan

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Orson Scott Card
Kissing, Thinking, Tears
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

Orson Scott Card
Teacher, Mistake, Believe
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

Orson Scott Card
Ironic

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Orson Scott Card
Mean, Thinking, Telling The Truth
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.162, Macmillan

Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

Orson Scott Card
Dream, Sleep, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.178, Macmillan

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.

Orson Scott Card
Eye, Dry, Taught
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.44, Macmillan

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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Done, Might, Imagine
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.76, Macmillan

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

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Essence, Desire, Dignity
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.190, Macmillan

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Simple, Air
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.178, Macmillan

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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Fighting, Winning, Enders Game
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.21, Macmillan

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

Orson Scott Card
Simple, Relation
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Wyrms”, p.231, Macmillan

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Orson Scott Card
Teacher, Enemy

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, Men, I Believe
Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.70, Macmillan

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, Two, Soul
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.90, Macmillan

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

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Slave, Rejoice, Jane

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Orson Scott Card
Needs, Fiction, Fantasy
Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

How short life is for fools.

Orson Scott Card
Short Life, How Short Life Is, Fool
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.181, Macmillan

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Orson Scott Card
Reading, Kids, Parent

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Orson Scott Card
Trying, Stories, Ender
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Orson Scott Card
Book, Satanic, Behave

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Kings, Names
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Hart's Hope”, p.32, Macmillan

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

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Imagination, Tragedy, Bed
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Orson Scott Card
Fiction, Truth Is, Reason
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.114, Macmillan

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, World, Should
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.631, Tor Science Fiction

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