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Orson Scott Card ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 24. August 1951
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“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

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“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Shadow

Quelle: Ender's Shadow

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

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“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Shadow Puppets

Quelle: Shadow Puppets

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Shadow

Quelle: Ender's Shadow

“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Speaker for the Dead

Quelle: Speaker for the Dead

“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child… Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”

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“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”

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Orson Scott Card Sarah

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“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

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“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Children of the Mind

Quelle: Children of the Mind

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Speaker for the Dead

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“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Shadow

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“The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Xenocide

Quelle: Xenocide

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Shadow

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“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Speaker for the Dead

Quelle: Speaker for the Dead

“It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Quelle: Treasure Box

“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Speaker for the Dead

Quelle: Speaker for the Dead

“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

Quelle: Ender's Game

“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”

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Orson Scott Card buch Ender's Game

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“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish… Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”

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