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““Are you all right, sir?” asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.””

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“I have no secret thoughts… Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them — if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else’s plan?”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. “At least not without good reason.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15.

“Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I’m a terrible salesman,” he finally said. “I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 12 “Springfield” (p. 250).

“Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 1 “Nueva Barcelona” (p. 19).

“I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Petra Arkanian Delphiki.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence—what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.”

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"Atlantis," from Keeper of Dreams (2008).

“I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.”

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Treason (1988)

“And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 9.

“Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don’t understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 17.

“They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?…And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 15.

“There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 9 “Expeditions” (p. 166).

“The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Saints

Saints (1983)

“Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Virlomi.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps… loosen them up.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).

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