All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
Orson Scott CardLet me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.
Orson Scott CardNo 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 redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott CardTag: life-lessons ender-wiggin ender andrew-wiggin
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
Orson Scott CardTag: courage enemies luxury hostage breaking-dawn
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Orson Scott CardTag: morality literature on-fiction fiction
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew."
"He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six."
"Right."
"And you're the oldest."
"Yes."
"That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
Tag: children
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.
Orson Scott CardFiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Orson Scott CardOne mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott CardTag: bean two-heads-are-better-than-one
As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes
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