„Budoucnost je sto tisíc nitek, zatímco minulost je tkanina, kterou nelze utkat znovu.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Xenocida
Z knihy: Xenocida
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Orson Scott Card
Datum narození: 24. srpen 1951
Orson Scott Card je jeden z nejznámějších amerických spisovatelů. Jeho nejznámější díla patří do žánrů science fiction a fantasy. Klasikou v těchto žánrech se stal jeho román Enderova hra. Wikipedia
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„He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.“
Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
„Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.“
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
„In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Mluvčí za mrtvé
Zdroj: Speaker for the Dead
„It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha The Folk of the Fringe
Zdroj: The Folk of the Fringe
„No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Mluvčí za mrtvé
Zdroj: Speaker for the Dead
„Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Mluvčí za mrtvé
Zdroj: Speaker for the Dead
„Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
„There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.“
— Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Game
Zdroj: Ender's Game
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