Орсон Скотт Кард цитаты страница 9

„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

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„Я есть то, что я помню.“

земля
Источник: Игра Эндера

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„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

“For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.”

Орсон Скотт Кард: Цитаты на английском языке

“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.”

Treason (1988)

“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.”

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

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

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

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

How Software Companies Die

“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.”

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

“All children are manipulators.”

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“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.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“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.”

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

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

Orson Scott Card книга Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

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

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (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.”

Orson Scott Card книга Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

Orson Scott Card книга Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

Orson Scott Card книга Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“[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.”

Treason (1988)

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

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“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.”

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

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

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“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.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)