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30 Orson Scott Card Quotes & Sayings
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30 Orson Scott Card Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 24 August 1951. |
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
Alright
Born
Die
Getting
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Capitalism
Garden
Getting
Plant
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Holding
Least
Metaphors
Most
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Able
Being
Causes
Class
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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Against
Behavior
Books
Homosexual
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Always
Lies
Live
Stories
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
Orson Scott Card
Another
Choice
Control
Created
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Orson Scott Card
Alien
Believe
Different
DifferentPeople
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Again
All-Time
Answer
Ask
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Continue
Elaborate
Elite
Fall
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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Acting
Any
Citizen
CitizenKane
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card
Constantly
Listen
Music
While
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Could
Decades
Few
Hope
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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Found
History
Lived
Never
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Am
Before
Began
Civilization
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I buy way too many books.
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Books
Buy
Many
Too
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Am
Children
Father
Good
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Actor
Becoming
College
Director
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Depending
Going
Hour
Hours
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Fun
Hard
Having
HavingFun
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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About
Best
Day
End
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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Among
Most
Never
Possessions
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Languages
Liars
Speak
Who
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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Itself
Mind
Only
Own
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Because
Everything
First
Learning
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Admiration
Contempt
IWonder
Motivation
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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.
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Also
Defeat
Enemy
Enough
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Everything
First
Ground
Ideas
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Behave
Benefit
Community
Every
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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Also
Angry
Course
Critics
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Orson Scott Card Quotes & Sayings