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• It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

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  Slave, Stood Up, Owners

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.209, Macmillan

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• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

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  Humble, Men, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

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  Powerful, Lying, Party

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

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  Hands, Clean, Bloody

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.13, Macmillan

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• War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

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  War, Suffering, Careful

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

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• To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

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  Wickedness, Way, Surprise

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.133, Macmillan

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• And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

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  Book, Writing, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

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  Successful, Secret, Honey

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• People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

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  Boys, People, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Medicine

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

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  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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

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  Ruthlessness, Enders Game, Peter

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.35, Macmillan

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• He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

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  Eye, Lips, Giants

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.56, Macmillan

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• 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

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  Lasts, Ruthlessness, Favors

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

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  Thinking, Long, Being True

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

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  Men, Hypocrisy, Dresses

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.256, Macmillan

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

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  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

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  People, Needs, Knows

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

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  World, Payment, Folks

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.237, Macmillan

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• I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

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  Hurt, Lying, People

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

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• You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

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  Growing Up, Writing, House

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• In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

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  Creating, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.61, Writer's Digest Books

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• . . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

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  Eye, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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  Winning, Firsts, Winner

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.206, Macmillan

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• When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

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  Doubt, Politics, No Doubt

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.339, Macmillan

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