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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

“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.
really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Shadow of the Hegemon

“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Empire

Source: Empire

“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”

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Orson Scott Card

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.

Ender stopped. "Not from them.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.

My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.'
Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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