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Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

Orson Scott Card
Media, Monoculture
Actusf Interview, www.actusf.com. 2000.

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.

Orson Scott Card
Wall, Real, Home
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Hidden Empire”, p.38, Macmillan

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.

Orson Scott Card
Memories, Games, People

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Orson Scott Card
Hands, Names, Confusion
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1238, Macmillan

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Orson Scott Card
People, Suffering, Good People
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.16, Macmillan

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Orson Scott Card
Heartbreak, Betrayal, Men
"Treason". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1988.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card
Loyalty, Together, Something New
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.79, Macmillan

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Smart, Stupid
Orson Scott Card (2003). “First Meetings: In Ender's Universe”, p.88, Macmillan

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

Orson Scott Card
Girl, Wise, Powerful
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Men, Hands
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.233, Macmillan

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Hypocrisy, Choices, Important
"Ender in Exile". Book by Orson Scott Card, November 11, 2008.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, Purpose, Profanity
"Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1990.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Orson Scott Card
Balance, Misery, Sometimes

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Orson Scott Card
Writing, Past, Ideas

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Orson Scott Card
Happiness
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.236, Macmillan

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Orson Scott Card
Evil, Enough, Downfall
"Stone Tables". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1997.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Orson Scott Card
Degrees, Flags, Gone

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Orson Scott Card
Grief, Thinking, Ungrateful

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Orson Scott Card
Love You, Want, Way
"Treasure Box". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Orson Scott Card
Stars, Blow, Lakes
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.166, Macmillan

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

Orson Scott Card
Community, Persons, Defined
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.11, Macmillan

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Orson Scott Card
Love Is, About Yourself, Things You Like

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Orson Scott Card
People, Sometimes, Terrible

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

Orson Scott Card
Hate, Hate Him, Knows

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Orson Scott Card
Teacher, Hate, Fighting
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.80, Macmillan

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