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Orson Scott Card je americký produktívny spisovateľ rôznych žánrov s množstvom bestselerov.

✵ 24. august 1951
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“Something had been given back to him. And because [she] had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.

“Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered.
Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 7 “Errand Boy” (p. 136).

“Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 200
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 14.

“Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Saints

Saints (1983)

“Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,” said Verily, “and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 3.

“Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?”
“No trouble at all,” said Calvin, annoyed. “Why do you think I want to cause trouble?”

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“Because you are awake.”
Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 4.

“When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.”

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

“God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door,
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.”

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

“Our savior will resurrect us,” said Peggy, “but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.”

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

“Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.”

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Treason (1988)

“Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 3.

“I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do… Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.”

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

“Alvin wondered if it was true—if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.”

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Zdroj: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 11.

“This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“I wanted your songs.
You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature," he said, irritated at my failure to respond.
"Nature's virtue is intact," I reassured him. "I just know some different laws.”

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Dialog between Lord Barton and Lanik Mueller, after the latter performs a series of apparent miracles
[A Planet Called Treason, 1979, 1st Dell printing, 1980, July, Dell Publishing, New York, ISBN 0-440-16897-X, p. 240 of 299]

“Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you’re never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 100
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines — the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Spoken by Sister Carlotta.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)

“I'm nobody's child.
You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.”

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Orson Scott Card kniha Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“Like running hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them… and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

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