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Orson Scott Card, né le 24 août 1951 à Richland dans l'État de Washington, est un écrivain de science-fiction américain s'étant notamment illustré dans le genre de la fantasy.

Il reçut les prix Hugo et Nebula deux années consécutives, au titre de son Cycle d'Ender, ce qui constitue une première dans l'histoire de la science-fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. août 1951
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“En terme de reproduction, un mâle fait de son mieux s'il voyage et copule au maximum.”

Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

A male does his best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible.
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Xénocide, 1993

“Les sages ne sont pas sages parce qu'ils ne commettent jamais d'erreurs. Ils sont sages parce qu'ils corrigent leurs erreurs dès qu'ils les reconnaissent.”

Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
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Xénocide, 1993

“Même si le libre arbitre n'existe pas, nous devons nous comporter les uns envers les autres comme si le libre arbitre existait afin de pouvoir vivre en société.”

Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Xénocide, 1993

“C'est la vie. Ça fait mal, c'est sale, mais c'est tellement bon.”

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It's life. It hurts, it's dirty, but it's so good.
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Les enfants de l'Esprit, 2000

“Je n’en mourus pas. Mais quand ma voix se tut et de vis la terre refermée, je voulus la refaire surgir du néant, rappeler à la vie le hideux vieillard, permettre à son existence de se poursuivre même si son être ne pouvais pas vivre. Il méritait de mourir, sauf que rien ne mérite la mort, et j’aurais pu devenir fou en cet instant, partagé entre le besoin de ramener à la vie l’homme et la maison, et la certitude que leur destruction était nécessaire.”

Orson Scott Card livre A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason

“Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m’avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais…”

Orson Scott Card livre A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason

Orson Scott Card Citations

“Un décor rustique évoque toujours la fantasy; pour évoquer la science-fiction, il faut des panneaux de métal et du plastique. Il faut des boulons.”

Orson Scott Card

Comment écrire de la fantasy et de la science-fiction

“Lanik :
- Je suis en train de perdre Saranna.
L'Homee-qui-sais-tout :
- C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre.”

Orson Scott Card livre A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason

“La vie et encore assez douce pour nous… même si nous savons que cela ne tardera pas. Et cela aussi sera un bien. Même la mort sera un bien, je pense, non parce qu’elle mettra fin aux anciennes amertumes, mais parce qu’à mon avis elle sera la dernière des aigres saveurs qui m’ont signalé que j’étais en vie.
Par-dessous toutes choses je continue d’entendre le cri de la terre, mais il n’affecte plus ce que je vois et ce que je fais. Au contraire, il rehausse mes plaisirs, car le lever du soleil est plus éclatant à couse des sombres gouffres au fond de moi, et la sourire de Saranna est plus chaleureux à cause de la cruauté que j’ai connue, et les soins que je prodigue aux gens et aux animaux ont plus de valeur à cause des tueries que j’ai commises.”

Orson Scott Card livre A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason

“Mais peu importe qu’il y ait ou non des grands desseins extérieurs à moi. Mon seul espoir a été ceci : discerner ce qui pouvait être accompli, croire que c’était possible, et ensuite mettre tout en œuvre pour exécuter, à n’importe quel prix. Et quand une vie s’achève comme la mienne s’achèvera, nul ne peut me persuader que le prix ne valait pas d’être payé en échange de ce que j’ai reçu”

Orson Scott Card livre A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason

Orson Scott Card: Citations en anglais

“You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along—you want there to be some room for it to fit in.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 5 “Crystal Ball” (p. 98).

“Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.”

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

“Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“You must be a prophet right enough,” said Alvin Junior, “cause I can’t understand a thing you said.”

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

“A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 8.

“Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“In the absence of understanding, that was a good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were. Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 9.

“It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 3.

“But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.”

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Treason (1988)

“Taleswapper looked at Miller.
“I'm nothing,” he said.
“A Christian isn’t nothing,” said Taleswapper.
“I'm no Christian, either.”
“Ah,” said Taleswapper. “A Deist, then, like Tom Jefferson.” The children murmured at his mention of the great man’s name.
“Taleswapper, I'm a father who loves his children, a husband who loves his wife, a farmer who pays his debts, and a miller without a millstone.””

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.

“Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.””

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.

“The desire to force others to bend or break to her will was always there, usually hidden deeply enough that she could forget she had that wish within her, but occasionally surfacing to dangle the ripe fruit of power just out of her reach. She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.

““Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”
“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.””

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).

“At night in his own bed, Alvin listened to the distant greensong, still warm and beautiful, still bright and hopeful even though the forest was getting so sparse, even though the future was so dim. Cause there’s no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment. That’s all I want right now, thought Alvin. The present moment, which is good enough.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 19 (closing words).

“Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me — your life, your view of life — is the lie.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

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