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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.”

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It's life. It hurts, it's dirty, but it's so good.
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Les enfants de l'Esprit, 2000

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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.”

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“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

“I don’t plan to die for any cause,” said Jim Bowie. “Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).

“He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 9.

“The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.”

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How Software Companies Die

“I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 21).

“You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“All children are manipulators.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 2.

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

“Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 6.

“Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.

“Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.

“Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.

“What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.”

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Orson Scott Card livre Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.

“That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 11 “Flood” (p. 214).

“I don’t hold with prophets,” said Alvin. “Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.
I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.”

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Treason (1988)

“[He] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“You can’t change what you don’t understand.”

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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.

“Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.”

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

“Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him "Look at what you made me do!" That's the moral universe that [they] always lived in.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

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