Frases de Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card
Data de nascimento: 24. Agosto 1951
Orson Scott Card , é um escritor de ficção científica e fantasia norte-americano.
Foi o primeiro escritor a receber o prêmio Hugo e Nebula por dois anos consecutivos, graças aos seus romances da série Ender, O Jogo do Exterminador e Orador dos Mortos.
Card é também conhecido pela romantização do filme "O Segredo do Abismo", de James Cameron, por um conto da série da Fundação de Isaac Asimov e por roteiros da versão Ultimate do Homem de Ferro da Marvel Comics.Em 2013, Card foi selecionado como um roteirista convidado para escrever histórias do Superman para DC Comics, mas controvérsia sobre a opinião do Card sobre a homossexualidade, levou o ilustrador Chris Sprouse a deixar o projeto e a editora a engavetar as histórias.
Orson morou no Brasil por dois anos quando era missionário voluntário da Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias. Wikipedia
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Citações Orson Scott Card
„Não es estrago,” he whispered, “es solo fecundo, e vou plantar jardim aí.“
— Orson Scott Card, livro Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead
„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.“
Fonte: 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, livro Ender's Game
Fonte: 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, livro Ender's Game
Fonte: 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, livro Ender's Game
Fonte: 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, livro Speaker for the Dead
Fonte: 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, livro The Folk of the Fringe
Fonte: 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, livro Speaker for the Dead
Fonte: Speaker for the Dead
„Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.“
— Orson Scott Card, livro Ender's Game
Fonte: 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, livro Speaker for the Dead
Fonte: Speaker for the Dead
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