Orson Scott Card · 402 pages
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“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“виждах останки от малки електроцентрали е миниатюрни турбини, електроцентралки, изработени от ръцете на работниците, които са секли гората, държави, които са живели тук и са били принудени да заминат… че е трябвало да заминат, че са изселени като ония богаташи, като ония, които движеха голямата политика, познати ми до болка, високомерни и безцеремонни, самодоволни и брутални, преливащи от гордост, която в крайна сметка ги съсипа, това разбирах, ала не разбирах защо е трябвало да си заминат и тези скромни работнически ръце, на чието място сега тук никой не работеше, мислех си, че е жалко за тези хора, които са имали единствено тежкия си труд в горите и малките нивички по склоновете, работници, които никога не са имали време да бъдат безочливи и горделиви, които сигурно са били хора покорни, защото на това ги е научил животът, в който сега аз надничах и срещу който бях тръгнал.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
“I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”
― Anthony Hope, quote from The Prisoner of Zenda
“Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she’d fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she’d leave if she hurt herself.”
― Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“›Nun, Neffe, was man da heut von dir hörte, darin hast du dich nicht zum ersten Male geübt.‹
›Wie meinst du, Onkel Niko?‹
›Wende nicht Unschuld vor! Du musizierst ja.‹
›Was für ein Ausdruck!‹
›Der hat schon für Dümmeres herhalten müssen [...].‹”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Doctor Faustus
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