“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more co...”
Author detail
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more co...”
“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”
“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”
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“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”
“Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.”
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“You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
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“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”
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“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it...”
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“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an...”
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“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
“Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WE...”
“[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.”
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you res...”
“And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor”
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redee...”
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
“But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the...”