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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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A Planet Called Treason
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Xénocide
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A Planet Called Treason
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“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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Orson Scott Card livre Xénocide

Source: Xenocide

“So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'

'About right,' Bean replied.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”

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Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.”

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Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

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Treason (1988)

“That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“There's always hope… even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Saints

Saints (1983)

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

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“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

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Orson Scott Card livre The Folk of the Fringe

Source: The Folk of the Fringe

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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