The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. Orson Scott Card nextnapswant From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose. Orson Scott Card strongercleverenemy But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. Orson Scott Card taughtmenfather I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away-- Orson Scott Card hatelove-youheart So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. Orson Scott Card enderenders-gamewar Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. Orson Scott Card diestragedylife He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. Orson Scott Card awkwardlanguageheart The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. Orson Scott Card paingrieffear That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature. Orson Scott Card differenceschildreninteresting I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse. Orson Scott Card enders-gamefightingwinning He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding. Orson Scott Card dangerousunderstandingbeautiful Darkness bound them closer than light. Orson Scott Card boundslightdarkness All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life? Orson Scott Card wellsaskshate Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. Orson Scott Card adultshurtlying As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living†might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway. Orson Scott Card imaginedonemight I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. Orson Scott Card kissingtearsthinking This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you. Orson Scott Card appearancejudgingpeople The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community. Orson Scott Card survivalcommunitychoices Withholding a decision is a decision. Orson Scott Card withholdingdecision You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for. Orson Scott Card warfarebattleheart
