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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

Orson Scott Card
Liars, Pretending, Said
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1052, Macmillan

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Orson Scott Card
Ordinary, Politics, Civility

And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.

Orson Scott Card
War, Thinking, Enemy

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Orson Scott Card
Luxury, Long, Want
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.4, Macmillan

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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Stupid, Class, Careers

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

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Men, Assuming, Virtuous
Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.72, Macmillan

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

Orson Scott Card
Wall, Crazy, Boys
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.81, Macmillan

I am a creature of chemicals.

Orson Scott Card
Chemicals, Creatures
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.224, Macmillan

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

Orson Scott Card
Beautiful, Memories, Mean
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.178, Macmillan

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Orson Scott Card
Hands, Credit, Conversation
"Children of the Mind". Book by Orson Scott Card, August, 1996.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

Orson Scott Card
Love You, Matter, No Matter What
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.154, Macmillan

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Orson Scott Card
Knowing, People, Information
Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.27, Macmillan

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

Orson Scott Card
Suicide, Views, Wish
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.545, Macmillan

Humanity does not ask 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.

Orson Scott Card
Ambition, Winning, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.173, Macmillan

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Orson Scott Card
Knowing, People, Demon
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

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Running, Clever, Winning
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card
Echoes, Sorrow, Love Someone
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.61, Macmillan

Darkness bound them closer than light.

Orson Scott Card
Light, Darkness, Bounds
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.272, Macmillan

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

Orson Scott Card
Understanding, Intellectual, Doe

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.

Orson Scott Card
Needs, Dictator, Lost
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.38, Macmillan

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

Orson Scott Card
Mother, People, Being The Best
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.272, Macmillan

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Orson Scott Card
School, Self, Care
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.211, Macmillan

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Orson Scott Card
Promise, Wicked, Gingerbread

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Orson Scott Card
Sorry, Decision, Undone
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.128, Macmillan

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

Orson Scott Card
Missing, Trying, Who We Are

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