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Life Quotes by Orson Scott Card

111 Life quotes by Orson Scott Card

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A cold night, stars shining overhead, reminds us that even when we feel tired, something steady stays. The quotes talk about fighting with honor, choosing to protect others instead of giving up. They also hint that the meaning of life grows when we think about what we value beyond our own bodies.

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How short life is for fools.

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“People get used to anything, if it just goes on.”

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Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

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“It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.”

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“Human beings remain grubs all the lives.”

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Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

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“Life is a suicide mission.”

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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.

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Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

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“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.”

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“That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

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“We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,”

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“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”

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Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

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“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him”

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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…

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“I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time…

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“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending…

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“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into…

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“The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one’s life without killing that life to accommodate them.”

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“I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue…

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“Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.”

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“So you’re coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with…

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Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to…

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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.…

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“Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of…

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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside…

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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because…

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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have…

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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and…

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“We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time." "Surely you're not saying that God had to…

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“Still not dead,” she said. She had greeted him with these words each time she woke during the past few days. At…

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The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just…

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“But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with." "Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be…

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“...He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of…

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“This is the most important thing the humans have taught me. The thing they're teaching us right now. You see, they are…

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“I'm talking about the cycle of life. I'm talking about finding some alien creature and deciding to marry her and stay with…

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“A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and…

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“I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless." "It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of…

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“Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.”

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Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

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“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

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