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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been…

— Orson Scott Card

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through…

— Orson Scott Card

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

— Orson Scott Card

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love…

— Orson Scott Card

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

— Orson Scott Card

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

— Orson Scott Card

“They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.”

— Orson Scott Card

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny…

— Orson Scott Card

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to…

— Orson Scott Card

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to…

— Orson Scott Card

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write…

— Orson Scott Card

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want…

— Orson Scott Card

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool…

— Orson Scott Card

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So…

— Orson Scott Card

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…

— Orson Scott Card

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person…

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...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.…

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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,…

— Orson Scott Card

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.…

— Orson Scott Card

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared…

— Orson Scott Card

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and…

— Orson Scott Card

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen…

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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…

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“If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is…

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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…

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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below…

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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.…

— Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I…

— Orson Scott Card

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the…

— Orson Scott Card