More - Orson Card Quotes

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

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 Company

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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In order to learn, one must change one's mind

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Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is sweet. Let it go on.

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

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 Capitalism

Humans mate with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but because they commune with each other at all.

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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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 Adversity

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

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 Admiration

"Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.

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 Fear

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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 Space