Orson Scott Card cytaty (611 cytatów, strona 10)

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. (ang.)
Postać: Mazer Rackham
Saga Endera, Gra Endera
Źródło: rozdział 14, s. 248

„Sny to tylko bezładne eksplozje wspomnień, które mózg później interpretuje po to, aby stworzyć przypadkowe powiązania, co z kolei jest źródłem powstawania opowieści z niczego.”

Orson Scott Card książka Pamięć Ziemi

Pamięć Ziemi
Źródło: s. 56.

„Meb jest bezmózgowcem - stwierdził Issib. - Po prostu chodzi tam, dokąd go prowadzi najbardziej wystająca część ciała. Czasem oznacza to, że podąża z swoim nosem, ale zwykle nie.”

Orson Scott Card książka Pamięć Ziemi

Pamięć Ziemi
Źródło: s. 37.

O czasie

„Nigdy nie mieszaj się w kłótnie kobiet.”

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Zadomowienie

O kobietach

„(…) dowódcy mają tyle władzy, ile im jej dasz. Im bardziej jesteś posłuszny, tym bardziej tobą rządzą.”

Orson Scott Card Saga Endera

Postać: Dink
Saga Endera, Gra Endera
Źródło: rozdział 8, s. 97

„Na tym polega małżeństwo. Kłócisz się cały czas, ale nigdy z tego powodu, który uważasz za powód kłótni.”

Orson Scott Card książka Siódmy syn

Postać: Measure
Siódmy syn

O małżeństwie , O czasie

„Obojętnie, w jaką teorię wierzycie, nie robi to żadnej różnicy prawdzie.”

Orson Scott Card książka Pamięć Ziemi

Postać: Matka/Rasa.
Pamięć Ziemi
Źródło: s. 63.

„To zabawne. Zanim tu dotarłeś, biskup chciał nas przekonać, że jesteś Szatanem. W naszej rodzinie tylko Quim traktował to poważnie Ale gdyby biskup powiedział, że jesteś Enderem, pewnie ukamienowalibyśmy cię zaraz po lądowaniu.
– Czemu teraz tego nie zrobicie?
– Teraz cię znamy. Na tym polega cała różnica. Nawet Quim przestał cię nienawidzić. Kiedy pozna się kogoś naprawdę, nie można go nienawidzić.
– A może nikogo nie można naprawdę poznać, póki nie przestaje się go nienawidzić?
– Czy to paradoks błędnego koła? Dom Cristão twierdzi, że większość prawd daje się wyrazić jedynie poprzez błędne koło.
– Nie sądzę, by miało to związek z prawdą. To po prostu kwestia przyczyny i skutku. Nigdy nie zdołamy ich rozróżnić. Nauka nie uznaje żadnych przyczyn prócz najpierwszej – jeśli przewrócisz klocek domina, sąsiedni upadnie także. Jeśli idzie o istoty ludzkie, to jedyną przyczyną, która ma znaczenie, jest przyczyna ostateczna – cel. Co dana osoba chce osiągnąć. Kiedy zrozumiesz, czego ludzie naprawdę pragną, nie możesz ich nienawidzić. możesz się ich bać, ale nie nienawidzić, ponieważ zawsze znajdziesz te same pragnienia we własnym sercu.”

Orson Scott Card Saga Endera

Saga Endera, Mówca Umarłych

O ludziach , O rodzinie , O domu , O nauce

„Czasami trzeba ukołysać kogoś do snu.”

Orson Scott Card

Zadomowienie

„Prawda jest martwa, ale piękna, objawia się, ale zawsze jest nieuchwytna.”

Orson Scott Card

Zadomowienie

O prawdzie

„Nie bądź jedną z biegających, walczących mrówek. Bądź butem.”

Orson Scott Card książka Cień Endera

Cień Endera

O butach

„Nie ma nic staroświeckiego w dobrej, starej miłości.”

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Zadomowienie

„Na wszystko, co się wydarzy, można znaleźć całe mnóstwo wytłumaczeń.”

Orson Scott Card książka Siódmy syn

Postać: Armor
Siódmy syn

„Meb jest bezmózgowcem - stwierdził Issib.”

Orson Scott Card książka Pamięć Ziemi

Po prostu chodzi tam, dokąd go prowadzi najbardziej wystająca część ciała. Czasem oznacza to, że podąża z swoim nosem, ale zwykle nie.
Pamięć Ziemi
Źródło: s. 37.

Orson Scott Card: Cytaty po angielsku

“By the time Verily was sixteen, a sturdy and rather good-looking young man of some education and impeccable manners, he had become a thoroughgoing skeptic. If the dogmas about witchery could be so hopelessly wrong, how could any of the teachings of the ministers be relied upon? It left Verily Cooper at loose ends, intellectually speaking, for all his teachers spoke as if religion were the cornerstone of all other learning, and yet all of Verily’s actual studies led him to the conclusion that sciences founded upon religion were uncertain at best, utterly bogus at worst.”

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 9.

“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”

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

“I interpreted all you did as weakness — but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.”

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(Chapter reference needed).
The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995)

““I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.”
“I see him with a woman,” said Rien. “That is what he miss the most.”
“I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,” said Dead Mary. “That is what he fears the most.””

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 16 “Labor” (p. 307).

“Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.”

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

“Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man’s sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman’s throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer’s table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk.”

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 1.

“You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.”

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Orson Scott Card książka Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.”

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 19.

“What is the White man? What does he do?
The White man is like a human being, but he crushes all other living things under his feet.
Then why, O Ta-Kumsaw, when I look into your heart, why is it that you do not wish to hurt the White man, that you do not wish to kill the White man?
The White man doesn’t know the evil that he does. The White man doesn’t feel the peace of the land, so how can he tell the little deaths he makes? I can’t blame the White man. But I can’t let him stay. So when I make him leave this land, I won’t hate him.”

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.

“A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.”

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Orson Scott Card książka Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

““Black with hate,” said Becca. “You are gathering your people with hate.”
“Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw.
“That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently.”

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

“This is Alvin Smith,” said Cooper. “He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.”

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Źródło: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

“Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?”

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

“Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.”

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Orson Scott Card książka Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.”

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

“It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.”

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Orson Scott Card książka Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?”

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

“In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.”

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Orson Scott Card książka Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“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 książka Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.”

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Quoted by Mary Robinette Kowal in " Precogs and Ray Guns Have No Place In True SciFi http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/science-fantasy.php".
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