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“Madness, and then illumination.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Illumination #Madness
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“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Work #Garden #Getting High
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“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Inspirational #World #Changing The World
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“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Writing #Editing #Space
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“Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Judging #People
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“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
#Wise #Mistake
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“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 Life #Mean #Fiction
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“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Children #Childhood #Today
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“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Book #Writing #Heart
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“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
#Men #Pigs #Democracy
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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Writing #Past #Ideas
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“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
#Hurt #Pain #Dirty
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“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Grief #Thinking #Ungrateful
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“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
#Sacrifice #Simple #Thinking
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“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.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Enemy #Defeat #Moments
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“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
#Real #Fiction #World
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“Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Writing #Impact #Stories
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“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
#Believe #Thinking #Want
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“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Opposites #Happy Endings #Sometimes
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“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Mean #Doubt
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“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#People #May #Miserable
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“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
#Love #Believe #Thinking
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“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Thinking #Mind #Surprise
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“God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Stupid #Way #Causes
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“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Boyfriend #Children #Father
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“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Happiness
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“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Hypocrisy #Choices #Important
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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
#Humanity #Doe #Brilliant
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“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Prayer #Thinking #Romance
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“The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.”
-- Orson Scott Card
#Lying #Stories
