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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

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Heartfire

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I am a creature of chemicals.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

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

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You underestimate yourself.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant

“The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.”

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Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”

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Treason (1988)

“Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 13.

““I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”
“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?””

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 12.

“Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

““You're such a liar.”
“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.””

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.”

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

“Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?”

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Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?”

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Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

““Am I hired?”
“There is no legal way you can get me out of paying that much of my taxes.”
“On the contrary, Mr. Wiggin. The tax laws are designed to trick people into paying more than they have to. That way the rich who are in the know get to take advantage of drastic tax breaks, while those who don’t have such good connections and haven’t yet found an accountant who does are tricked into paying ludicrously higher amounts.””

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“Even the most "Rational" people — the ones who claimed not to have a religion — were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?"
"Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers."
"Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?”

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Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

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