Orson Scott Card
"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."
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"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."
"أحتاج منك أن تكون ذكيًا، يا بين. أحتاج منك أن تفكر في حلول لمشكلات لم نرها بعد. أريدك أن تجرب أشياء لم يجرّبها أحد من قبل لأنها غاية في الحباة."
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven."
"المستقبل مئة ألف خيط، أما الماضي فنسيج لا يُعاد حياكته أبدًا."
Orson Scott Card
Xenocide
"The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."
"الحكماء ليسوا حكماء لأنهم لا يخطئون، بل لأنهم يصححون أخطاءهم فور إدراكها."
Orson Scott Card
Xenocide
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
"أرى أنه من المستحيل حقًا أن تفهم إنسانًا، ما يصبو إليه، وما يؤمن به، ثم لا تحبه بالطريقة التي يحب بها هو نفسه."
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
"Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty. Gideon Wyeth:Why?Ethan: Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty."
"إيثان وايث: أتمنى أن تكون عطشانًا.
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Orson Scott Card
"There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community."
"لا عجب أن كل مجتمع بشري عرف الخيال؛ فهو يعلمنا كيف نكون "صالحين"، وكيف نسلك سبيلًا يعود بالنفع على الجماعة بأسرها."
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."
"إن التعليم الذي هيأني كان في فصول الثقافة العامة، تلك التي حاولت التهرب منها حين كنت طالبًا جامعيًا غبيًا، لكنها منحتني أساس المعرفة الشاملة الذي يجعل مهنة الكاتب ممكنة."
Orson Scott Card
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
"البطالة هي حيلة الرأسمالية لتدفعك إلى زراعة حديقة."
Orson Scott Card
"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."
"أتمنى أن يذكرني أبنائي أباً صالحاً."
Orson Scott Card
"With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun."
Orson Scott Card
"I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side."
Orson Scott Card
"In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!’ To which I reply ‘Well, why? It’s already a book."
Orson Scott Card
"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
Ender’s Game
"What a waste of time to be posthumously famous."
Orson Scott Card
"“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”"
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
"It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course"
Orson Scott Card
"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."
Orson Scott Card
"[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back."
Orson Scott Card
"I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen."
Orson Scott Card
"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."
Orson Scott Card
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