Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...
Orson Scott CardWishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
Orson Scott Cardall living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Orson Scott CardNever true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is another matter. True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. And I must say that I have never seen such a connection in my life. There are times when I suspect there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creations of thought and have no substance.
Orson Scott CardThere are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.
Orson Scott CardThe univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,
Orson Scott CardBut how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely—those were questions whose answers could not be found.
Orson Scott CardI have begged and she hasn't answered. The whales are swimming deep inside me and she doesn't help. I need help. All the monsters in the world are inside me instead of outside me. I've been tricked and trapped and they are inside my walls not outside my walls inside with me and she won't help me. When I stop thinking about a muscle it shakes. When I stop thinking about a fear it leaps at me. I'm drowning but the lake keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper and I don't know how to get out the walls go up forever and I can't climb over and I can't break through and she won't talk to me.
Orson Scott CardLike Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does.
Orson Scott CardNobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
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