Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
"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. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them."
Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
"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
"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 Ender’s Game
"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
Orson Scott Card
"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."
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
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