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""Live long and prosper.""
— -Spock

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"This is usually the part when people start screaming.
-Sylar"
— Heroes

tags: gabriel, gray, heroes, sylar
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"Sure, Hiro can stop time, but so can breaking your watch. Only Sylar can get it running again."
— Sylar's Army (Sarmy)

tags: army, heroes, sarmy, sylar, sylar-s
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"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
— Alan Moore (Batman: The Killing Joke)

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"This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."
- Andrew Wiggin"
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you"
— Orson Scott Card (Sarah: Women of Genesis)

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"I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. "
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: life
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"No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins."
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

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"I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender "
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

36 people liked it

"You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are."
— Orson Scott Card (The Worthing Chronicle)

tags: inspirational
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"All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe."
— Orson Scott Card

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"Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you."
— Orson Scott Card (Treasure Box)

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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 (Ender's Game)

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"Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price."
— Orson Scott Card (Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus)

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"He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly =)
"
— Orson Scott Card

tags: ender-s, game, graff, killing, space
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"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, Children of the Mind

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"Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: -tribute, nettie-
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"As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes"
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

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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 (Children of the Mind)

19 people liked it

"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

tags: fiction, reading
19 people liked it

"You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

tags: humor
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"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: -ender-s, shadow-
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
— Orson Scott Card (Harts Hope)

tags: enemies, friendship, home
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"In order to learn, one must change one's mind."
— Orson Scott Card

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"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: art, writers, writing
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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 (Ender's Game)

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"The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then ransformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end."
— Orson Scott Card (Songmaster)

tags: love, poem, song, tender
13 people liked it

"When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them."
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

tags: hate, know
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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: escapism, fiction
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"We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: brats, coronal, ender-s, game, gingerberad, graff, promise, wicked, witch
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"This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours."
— Orson Scott Card (Children of the Mind)

tags: humor, relationships, symptoms
10 people liked it

"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment."
— Orson Scott Card (Empire)

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"If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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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

tags: writing
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"We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place."
— Orson Scott Card (Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus)

7 people liked it

"The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie."
— Orson Scott Card (Xenocide)

tags: secret
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"When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man"
— Orson Scott Card (Xenocide)

tags: knowledge
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"Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won"
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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"I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: ender, ender-s, game, lake, sapce, valentine, water, wiggin
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"Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something."
— Orson Scott Card (Treasure Box)

7 people liked it

"If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
-Val"
— Orson Scott Card (Children of the Mind)

tags: card, humor, orson
6 people liked it

"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. no one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. and the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher. "
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

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" If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them."
— Orson Scott Card (Shadow of the Giant)

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"All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people."
— Orson Scott Card (Empire)

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"The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it."
— Orson Scott Card (Empire)

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