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Orson Scott Card Quotes: "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it"

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




Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way."

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.




Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive."

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



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.




Orson Scott Card Quotes: "There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you"

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?"

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?




Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Madness, and then illumination."

Madness, and then illumination.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world."

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely."

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today."

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are."

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something."

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger."

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 Quotes: "If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."

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 Quotes: "You can't change what you don't understand."

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



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing."

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts."

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information."

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport."

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them."

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians."

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "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 Quotes: "All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?"

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid."

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price."

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging."

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best."

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it."

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."

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



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "In order to learn, one must change one's mind."

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.



Orson Scott Card Quotes: "Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people."

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.