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Author: Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets
In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. "Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
all the others knew that he had a mind, knew that he was capable of understanding ideas. What will new people think when they see me? They'll see a body that's already atrophying, hunched over; they'll see me walk with a shuffling gait; they'll watch me use my hands like paws, clutching a spoon like a three-year-old; they'll hear my thick, half-intelligible speech; and they'll assume, they'll know, that such a person cannot possibly understand anything complicated or difficult.
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playingalong, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the childrencould see through their game.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
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Orson Scott Card _ Children of the Mind
I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.
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