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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.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

“It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 7.

“"Women's intuition" wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.”

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

“Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause—and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause—one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 56).

“I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.”

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Treason (1988)

“Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“There were always people searching for the Unmaker, for some awful destructive power outside themselves. Poor fools, they always thought that Destruction was merely destruction, they were using it and when they were done with it, they’d set to building. But you don’t build on a foundation of destruction. That’s the dark secret of the Unmaker, Alvin thought. Once he sets you to tearing down, it’s hard to get back to building, hard to get your own self back. The digger wears out the ground and the spade. And once you let yourself be a tool in the Unmaker’s hand, he’ll wear you out, he’ll tear you down, he’ll dull you and hole you and all the time you’ll be thining you’re so sharp and fine and bright and whole, and you never go till he lets go of you, lets you drop and fall. What’s that clatter? Why, that was me. That was me, sounding like a wore-out tool. What you leaving me for? I still got use left in me?
But you don’t, not when the Unmaker’s got you.”

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

“War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 2.

“He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.”

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

“What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 11.

“I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.”

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Treason (1988)

“Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts… And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“How short life is for fools.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 8 “Plans” (p. 159).

“He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Stop threatening me… I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.

“You speak metaphorically, I hope,” said Peggy.
“I hope not,” said Becca. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Perhaps you don’t desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”

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Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.

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