Orson Scott Card Quotes

born 1951 United States

Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author working in numerous genres. He is best known for his novel Ender's Game and its many sequels.

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Also known as: Card, Orson Scott, Ender

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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Stone Tables (1997)

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn't need no philosopher to tell him that.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.

Seventh Son (1987)

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

Heartfire (1998)

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.

Treasure Box (1996)

Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

The Ships Of Earth (1994)

What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.

Treasure Box (1996)

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Treasure Box (1996)

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

Shadow of the Giant (2005)

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Stone Tables (1997)

It's plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

Seventh Son (1987)

“You can afford me,” said Jane. “I’m cheap and you’re rich.”

He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.

Treason (1988)

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 keep living the life I already started to live.

Alvin Journeyman (1995)

Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.

Red Prophet (1988)

He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.

Alvin Journeyman (1995)

It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes—enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orson Scott Card (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.