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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Orson Scott Card
Real, Fiction, World

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Orson Scott Card
Choices, Community, Survival

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Crazy, Gone
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.92, Macmillan

You can't change what you don't understand.

Orson Scott Card
Acknowledge, Can't Change
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.241, Macmillan

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

Orson Scott Card
Mind, Refrain, Stills
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.9, Macmillan

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

Orson Scott Card
Thank God, Ender
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.218, Macmillan

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, Lucky, Guessing
"Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, Writing, Class

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

Orson Scott Card
Feelings, Random Things, Matter
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.36, Macmillan

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

Orson Scott Card
Brother, Giving, Easy
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.217, Macmillan

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Orson Scott Card
Boyfriend, Children, Dad

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Orson Scott Card
Pain, Who I Am, Long
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.166, Macmillan

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Orson Scott Card
Women, Blow, Civilization
Orson Scott Card (2010). “The Folk of the Fringe”, p.60, Macmillan

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Orson Scott Card
Pain, Forever, Doubt
"Ender's Game". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card
Humanity, Doe, Brilliant
FaceBook post by Orson Scott Card from Jul 08, 2013

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

Orson Scott Card
Winning, Killers, Killing

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

Orson Scott Card
Government, Law, Enemy
"Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Orson Scott Card
Trying, Genes, Buried
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga”, p.228, Hachette UK

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Enough, Whole
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.136, Macmillan

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Orson Scott Card
Mistake, Miracle, Trying
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.121, Macmillan

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Orson Scott Card
Religion, Hungry, Lord

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

Orson Scott Card
Leadership, Wise, Men
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.157, Tor Science Fiction

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Stupid, Fire
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.349, Macmillan

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

Orson Scott Card
War, Light, Government
"The Only Issue This Election Day". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 6, 2006.

I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

Orson Scott Card
Running, Honesty, War

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