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Orson Scott Card

In a way, being a Mormon prep...

In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

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Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except ...

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

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Orson Scott Card

We were all fated to die, and...

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.

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Orson Scott Card

I'm a Democrat voting for Bus...

I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

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Orson Scott Card

If the Church has no the auth...

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

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Orson Scott Card

Religion is tied to the deepe...

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

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Orson Scott Card

We care about moral issues, n...

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.

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Orson Scott Card

'I could kill you like this,'...

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

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Orson Scott Card

Welcome to the human race. No...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

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Orson Scott Card

He could see Bonzo's anger gr...

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

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Orson Scott Card

And what? What's the other ch...

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

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Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction has rivets, f...

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

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Orson Scott Card

If you asked me to marry you ...

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of ...

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

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Orson Scott Card

Peter, you're twelve years ol...

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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Orson Scott Card

You're like, both like, Alexa...

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

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Orson Scott Card

For children love is a feelin...

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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Orson Scott Card

nobody ever wrote to me sayin...

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

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Orson Scott Card

That night Demosthenes publis...

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

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Orson Scott Card

Oh, Val," said Father. "All y...

Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

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