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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

“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”

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Orson Scott Card Sarah

Source: Sarah

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

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Orson Scott Card Alvin Journeyman

Source: Alvin Journeyman

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

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Orson Scott Card

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Source: Hart's Hope

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

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Orson Scott Card

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“Madness, and then illumination.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

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