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Joe Haldeman, né le 9 juin 1943 à Oklahoma City, est un romancier américain de science-fiction.

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“[…] Vous êtes un pacifiste, mais un pacifiste raté; ce qui entraîne chez vous une légère névrose que vous assumez en reportant votre culpabilité sur l'armée.”

Joe Haldeman

La Guerre éternelle, 1975

“Ce soir, nous allons vous montrer huit manières de tuer un homme; elles sont toutes silencieuses.”

Joe Haldeman

La Guerre éternelle, 1975

“La trouille? Bien sûr, j'avais la trouille. Et qui ne l'aurait pas eue? Un fou, peut-être, un suicidaire, un robot… ou un officier de première ligne.”

Joe Haldeman

La Guerre éternelle, 1975

“La guerre moderne est devenue une chose extrêmement complexe, particulièrement au cours de ce dernier siècle. Ce ne sont plus les batailles gagnées qui font gagner les guerres, mais la complexe interdépendance entre des victoires militaires, des pressions économiques, des manœuvres logistiques, des renseignements sur l'ennemi, des prises de position politiques… c'est-à-dire des douzaines, littéralement des douzaines de facteurs.”

Joe Haldeman

La Guerre éternelle, 1975

“Je n'étais pas un soldat, je n'avais jamais voulu en être un, ni ne le voudrais jamais.”

Joe Haldeman

La Guerre éternelle, 1975

Joe Haldeman: Citations en anglais

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

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“The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.

Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War

“Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 46)
Contexte: Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there... the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War

“She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 28)

“Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 14

“We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course—and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 27

“CAROL: You don’t care for the music?
JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Mindbridge

Source: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 18 “Chapter 6: Prelude” (p. 64)

““You’re actually a soldier,” he said to me, “and you go along with this foolishness?”
“I didn’t ask to be a soldier. And I can’t imagine a peace as foolish as this war we’re in.””

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 227

“If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Accidental Time Machine

Source: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 14 (p. 152)

“I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely “cowardice“ had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 20 (p. 107)

“I never found anyone else and I don’t want anyone else. I don’t care whether you’re ninety years old or thirty. If I can’t be your lover, I’ll be your nurse.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 35 (p. 264)

“We’re inferring from an absence of data,” Jacque said. “That’s lousy science.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Mindbridge

Source: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 28 “Chapter Eight” (p. 104)

““Everybody rich and happy.” She smiled. “Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.””

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Joe Haldeman livre The Accidental Time Machine

Source: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 15 (p. 181)

“Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 146

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 249

“I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.”

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Source: For White Hill (1995), p. 257

“One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 25

“It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Camouflage

Source: Camouflage (2004), Chapter 24 (p. 133)

“Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.”

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Source: For White Hill (1995), p. 225

“Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Mindbridge

Source: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 8 “Geoformy 1” (p. 33)

“Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“It was an ideological war for some—the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 36

“Human nature does change, and the fact that we’ve developed tools to direct that change is quintessentially human. And it must be a nearly universal concomitant to technological growth everywhere in the universe; otherwise there would be no universe. Unless we’re the only technological intelligence in the universe, Julian pointed out; so far there’s no evidence to the contrary. Maybe our own existence is evidence that we’re the first creatures to evolve far enough to hit the reset button. Somebody does have to be first.
But maybe the first is always the last.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 20 (p. 108)

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 54

“Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.”

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Joe Haldeman livre Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), pp. 44-45

“Rationalism doesn’t require “belief,” only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.”

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Joe Haldeman livre The Accidental Time Machine

Source: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 12 (pp. 110-111)