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“Zymas li lasciò scegliere liberamente, ma tutti e cinquecento lo seguirono verso Traffing, lasciandosi alle spalle gli attoniti abitanti del villaggio. Non disse loro chi intendeva mettere al posto del Re. Il sogno aveva detto Palicrovol, ma Zymas intendeva vedere personalmente l'uomo, prima di aiutarlo a ribellarsi. I sogni vengono quando uno ha gli occhi chiusi, ma Zymas agiva solo con gli occhi aperti”

Orson Scott Card

Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 8

“Ah, Palicrovol, quando imparerai che la misericordia è buona quanto la persona a cui essa viene fatta? Hai risparmiato Asineth, che avrebbe dovuto morire; ora non risparmierai Orem Fianchi-Magri, chiamato Banningside, il cui buon cuore dovrebbe nascere centomila volte sulla terra. Sei come Asineth? Imparerai tutte le tue lezioni al contrario?”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 24

“Il suo amore per la teatralità lo indusse quasi a rispondere con qualche eroico epigramma; ma aveva appreso fin da giovane che la teatralità non sostituiva una sicura vittoria. Perciò le morse il cuore con i denti della sua mano sinistra, per abbatterla subito con un colpo magico. Anche se avesse resistito, sarebbe stata troppo scossa per combatterlo, dopo.”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, pp. 30-31

“Donnola — disse la Regina Bella — tu sai ora come sono stata servita. Dimmi… è giusta la mia vendetta?
— Ti è stato fatto un torto — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— È giusta la mia vendetta?
— Sei giusta a vendicarti.
— Ma la mia vendetta è giusta? — Bella sorrise, come la benedizione di un santo.
— Solo se ti vendichi di coloro che ti hanno fatto del male, e solo se la tua vendetta è uguale al torto subito.
— Suvvia, ho sentito dire che posso contare su Donnola Bocca-di-Verità per sentire il vero. Te lo chiedo per la quarta volta… sono giusta?
— No — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— Bene — disse Bella.”

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Sono stata trattata ingiustamente, e a meno che la mia vendetta non sia mostruosamente ingiusta, non sarò soddisfatta. (p. 36-37)
I giorni del cervo

“Allora scappò dal droghiere, stringendo in mano le sue poche monete di rame. Ma paura o non paura, voleva essere sicuro; così si fermò poco lontano, a guardare: e proprio come aveva pensato, Glasin riuscì a far stare tutta la sua mercanzia nel carretto, a parte la roba marcia. E per proteggere del cibo marcio, Orem avrebbe dovuto aspettare tutto il giorno, senza essere pagato. Non c'era onore a Inwit, neanche un briciolo, e questo lo rese più timoroso che mai della punta del pugnale che gli era stata puntata contro la pancia. Un pugnale aveva solo una punta, ma un traditore colpisce da qualsiasi parte, dicevano, e solo adesso Orem capiva quanto fosse vero”

Orson Scott Card

Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 69

Orson Scott Card: Frasi in inglese

“I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.”

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Treason (1988)

“You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

““I want to know how many years I got.”
“Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?”

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Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 57
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.”

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

“I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Champi T'it'u aka Dumper
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.”

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Treason (1988)

“I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.”

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Treason (1988)

“Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.”

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How Software Companies Die

“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.”

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

“Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“I think that I say those things that make people so angry, not because I really mean them, but because I simply thought of a clever way to say them. It's a kind of art, to think of the perfect way to say an idea, and when you think of it then you have to say it, because words don't exist until you say them."
"A pretty feeble kind of art, Nyef, and I say you should give it up before it gets you killed.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“The barrier was only in my mind — which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Julian Delphiki, aka Bean.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Future on Fire

Future on Fire (1991), introduction.

“If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?”

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Orson Scott Card libro Future on Fire

Future on Fire (1991), introduction.

“The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 5.

“I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.”

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Treason (1988)

“What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.”

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

“"'Waterloo was won,'" quoted Rackham, "'on the playing fields of Eton.'"
"What the hell does that mean?" asked Carn Carby. "You never even went to Eton."
"It was an analogy," said Rackham. "If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated."”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

““I was ordained,” said the preacher. “No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.”
Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.”

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

“Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

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