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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

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“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

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

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“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

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“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Shadow Puppets

Source: Shadow Puppets

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child… Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”

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“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”

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Orson Scott Card Sarah

Source: Sarah

“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

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“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish… Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”

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