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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”

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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

“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.”

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Treason (1988)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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How Software Companies Die

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

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

“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.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“All children are manipulators.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

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

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

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

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Treason (1988)

“[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.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

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

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

“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.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

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

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“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.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

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