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Orson Scott Card quotes - page 21
Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
Orson Scott Card
Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
Orson Scott Card
I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card
What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
Orson Scott Card
You always do that. Make all the questions harder. I make them truer.
Orson Scott Card
Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?” "Few measure up to my standards, but most try.
Orson Scott Card
You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
Orson Scott Card
Around here, ma'am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain't eating then they lying.
Orson Scott Card
It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
Orson Scott Card
Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
Orson Scott Card
I don't have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. "I am an artist.
Orson Scott Card
She can't help her red skin, and she isn't heathen. In fact, she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
Orson Scott Card
She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
Orson Scott Card
What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
Orson Scott Card
Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
Orson Scott Card
She grunted. "Nothing unusual?” "That's right.” "Well, if you ask me, that's pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.”.
Orson Scott Card
You can't tell real from a rutabaga.
Orson Scott Card
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
Orson Scott Card
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
Orson Scott Card
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.
Orson Scott Card
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Orson Scott Card
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