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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Sometimes, Enders Game
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.20, Macmillan

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Stories
Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.198, Macmillan

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

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

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Lying, Lakes, Order
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Heart, Cutting
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Earthfall”, p.10, Macmillan

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

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Time, Lying, Love You
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.232, 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 both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Powerful, Lying, Party
Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Believe, Stories
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.82, Macmillan

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Secret, Way
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.62, Macmillan

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Orson Scott Card
Liars, Lying, Language
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.516, Macmillan

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Hurt, Lying, Adults
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Orson Scott Card
War, Lying, Winning
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, 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

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