We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card Madness, and then illumination. Orson Scott Card illuminationmadness There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. Orson Scott Card enders-gameinspirationalworld Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card sarcasmworkfunny 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 wisemistake If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. Orson Scott Card democracypigsmen Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. Orson Scott Card dont-judge-mejudgingpeople The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. Orson Scott Card storieslying In order to learn, one must change one's mind. Orson Scott Card learningchangeorder We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. Orson Scott Card live-lifemeanfiction Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture. Orson Scott Card monoculturemedia I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. Orson Scott Card teachtaughtknows Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives? Orson Scott Card sacrificeanimalthinking She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good. Orson Scott Card painhurtdirty To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you. Orson Scott Card distancestrongtrying Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. Orson Scott Card realfictionworld I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often. Orson Scott Card dignityhonorgiving the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. Orson Scott Card rootswisepeople Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before. Orson Scott Card enoughknowstoday Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. Orson Scott Card knowshomeenemy If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. Orson Scott Card lethal-weaponarsenalweapons
