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

личинка
Источник: романы

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

свинья
Источник: Игра Эндера

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Я есть то, что я помню.“

земля
Источник: Игра Эндера

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„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.“

Источник: Игра Эндера

“What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.”

Орсон Скотт Кард: Цитаты на английском языке

“Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. But you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You won.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?”

How Software Companies Die

“He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“We are all fools when one wise man appears.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“The others are even more likely to obey their god.
Which is?
It dangles between their legs.”

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I want to see the king.
Wonderful. I'm glad for you.
Why are you so glad?
Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 10 “Mizzippy” (p. 188).

“The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.”

Treason (1988)

“I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

““We don’t go to Fort Chicago,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “We go to the holy place.”
“A church?” asked Alvin.
Ta-Kumsaw laughed. “You White people, when you make a place holy you build walls so nothing of the land can get in. Your god is nothing and nowhere, so you build a church with nothing alive inside, a church that could be anywhere, it doesn’t matter—nothing and nowhere.”
“Well what does make a place holy?” asked Alvin.
“Because that’s where the Red man talks to the land, and the land answers.””

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 7.

“What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?
That's how most men live, and don't even know it.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?”

Orson Scott Card книга Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

“My religion,” said Ms. Brown, “is to try to falsify all hypotheses.”

Treason (1988)

“That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 72
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.”

Orson Scott Card книга Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.”

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.
Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

““You,” said Purity, “have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.”
“But surrounded by Americans as I am,” said Cooper, “my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.””

Treason (1988)

“The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”

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

“Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.”

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

“Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.
Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.
You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?
That's where I've always stood.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 33).

“Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?”

Orson Scott Card книга Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“We're both damaged property, I guess.
Plenty of time for renovation.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 54
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.”

Orson Scott Card книга Homebody

Homebody (1998)