Battle Quotes by Orson Scott Card

8 Battle quotes by Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card’s eight snippets provide a concise window into his imaginative view of battle. This short set is perfect for a quick taste of his narrative style.

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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the…

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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

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I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the…

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I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

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The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and…

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It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a…

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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.…

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You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is…

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“You underestimate yourself.”

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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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:…

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“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,…

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“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones…

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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

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“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of…

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“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.…

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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

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“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,…

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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

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

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“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the…

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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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“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe…

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