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Ted Chiang é um escritor estadunidense. Conhecido por suas histórias de ficção científica, já foi condecorado com o Prémio Nebula, o Prémio Hugo e o Prémio Locus. Sua obra História da Sua Vida foi adaptada para o cinema em 2016 no filme Arrival.





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✵ 1967
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Ted Chiang: Frases em inglês

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”

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Ted Chiang The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

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“Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.”

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Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”

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Ted Chiang The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

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“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”

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“What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future. […] Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”

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Story of Your Life; first appeared in Starlight 2, 1998.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

“Centuries of their labor would not reveal to them any more of Creation than they already knew. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.”

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Tower of Babylon; first appeared in Omni, 1990.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.”

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Exhalation; first appeared in Eclipse 2, 2008.
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“God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.”

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Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

“"Forgive and forget" goes the expression, and for our idealized magnanimous selves, that was all you needed. But for our actual selves the relationship between those two actions wasn’t so straightforward. In most cases we had to forget a little bit before we could forgive; when we no longer experienced the pain as fresh, the insult was easier to forgive, which in turn made it less memorable, and so on.”

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"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang, Subterranean Press Magazine, Fall 2013

“The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.”

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Story of Your Life; first appeared in Starlight 2, 1998.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)