Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides? Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. Orson Scott Card fantasy fiction needs Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true. Orson Scott Card being-true long thinking Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association Orson Scott Card hungry alive association The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. Orson Scott Card ignorance purity people Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Orson Scott Card freedom humanity men Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. Orson Scott Card gallows reason people War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited. Orson Scott Card careful suffering war I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid. Orson Scott Card asteroids australia It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit. Orson Scott Card credit sneak-in way Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion. Orson Scott Card mets crazy We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death. Orson Scott Card that-moment our-lives moments Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you. Orson Scott Card greatness knowing opportunity I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. Orson Scott Card life-is heart father The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream. Orson Scott Card dream people thinking Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same. Orson Scott Card passion mean hands You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind. Orson Scott Card eye journey travel In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think. Orson Scott Card technology science mean Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness. Orson Scott Card ambition hope dream 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'. Orson Scott Card ruthlessness favors lasts And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift. Orson Scott Card writing giving book
