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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

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

“I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Source: Songmaster

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Empire

Source: Empire

“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD

He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

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Orson Scott Card The Worthing Chronicle

Source: The Worthing Chronicle

“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“You killed more people than anybody in history."

"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Empire

Source: Empire

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Variante: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game

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

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.”

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Orson Scott Card

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The enemy gate is down.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Variante: Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
Source: Ender's Game

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

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

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