Orson Scott Card Quotes on Change
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.
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For now that they could not be together, they must indefinitely be apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; for the moment we are not together, [he] is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.
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You never cease to amaze me, the way you turn people into plasma
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I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, the growing part was always new, and I wondered, when the tale was through, which part was me, and which was you.
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In the end...oneself is the only person anyone can convince.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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Maybe he's growing up Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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In another time, he would have flown into a rage at those words, would have blustered and threatened, or lashed out in fury. But he was a different man now, a tempered man, a man of discipline and quiet, ruthless wisdom.
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts
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Everything I ever felt myself to be a part of is dead
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Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else
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It was a mark of their naivete, to think that such a revolution could be accomplished so easily
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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation...you know
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I want to change me heart and I don't know how
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old
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No one is the same person today that he was yesterday. No one had a body as young as it was, or a heart so naive, or a head so ignorant as it was
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain
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Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live
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They say that love conquers all. They say that because they're idiots. Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be
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This is a really terrible dream, and I really ought to wake up and end it. And so I did
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Then [she] wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again
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Some people called it 'The time of undoing; ' some, wishing to be more positive, spoke of it as 'The replanting' or 'The restoring' or even 'The resurrection' of the earth. All these names were accurate. Something had been done, and now it was being undone. Much had died or been broken or killed, and now it was coming back to life
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I don't like making people do things against their will No, sees-in-the-dark. You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will
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Now I will never let go of you in my heart, Josif thought. I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right
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She did not try to persuade him. Just hoped that, before she left, she could see a change in his view
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew
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She never touched me, at least not as she had before, not with the promise of decades of passion in out future. She knew, but I did not yet know
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From man to woman to angel. Next transformation, please?
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A strange people, at once cruel and kind, strong and weak, and so quick to change from one extreme to the other that I could not predict what they would do.
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Yesterday it was a challenge. Today it wasn't
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The message seemed to be, you can't change anything and you'll end up dead so why try?
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Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
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He had only filled himself with anger, and he could not cease to hate just because he was asked to; not even because he wanted to
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No child can be understood without knowing the parents; no revolution can be understood without knowing the ancient regime; no colony can be understood without knowing the mother country; no new world can be understood without knowing the old world that went before.
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But you tell me that you loved her, though she was an adulteress. Isn't she the same person tonight? Has she changed between yesterday and today? Or is it only you who have changed?
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Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. -Treasure Box