Orson Scott Card
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"Orson Scott Card" is an American people/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 Award/Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards/the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.

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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

They get us to fight each other, to hate each other, the game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

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

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

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

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