Орсон Скотт Кард цитаты

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„Он свинья. - Свиньи в целом вполне приличный народ.
- Ты прав, я к ним несправедлив.“

„Земля - это непрекращающийся треск цикад, свист ветра и пение птиц.“

„Я есть то, что я помню.“

„Любовь — это богатство, которое ты можешь иметь только в том случае, когда все враги твои истреблены. До этого же, каждый кого ты любишь – заложник, ослабляющий твое бесстрашие и подкупающий трезвость твоего рассудка.“

“Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.”

“Maybe he's growing up.
Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.”

“I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.”

“"And you actually were cuddly," said Carn. "No offense, but you were spunky."
"If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.”

“My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.”

“I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.”

“My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.”

“What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.”

“The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.”

“Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.”

“They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.”

“He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.”

“Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.”

“You always do that. Make all the questions harder.
I make them truer.”

““Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?”
“Few measure up to my standards, but most try.””

“You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.”

“You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.”

“I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.”

“Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.”

“How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?”

“It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.”

“You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.”

“People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.”

“Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.”

““Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.”
“Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.”
Alvin chuckled grimly. “Oh, that mouth you’ve got.”
“You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.””

“What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!”

“Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.”

“The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.”

“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”