Murray Leinster Quotes

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. June 1896 – 8. June 1975
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The Pirates of Zan
The Pirates of Zan
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The Wailing Asteroid
The Wailing Asteroid
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Famous Murray Leinster Quotes

“This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 4

“Put dispassionately,” said Haynes cheerfully, “you sound like you’re crazy. But you’re stating facts. Okay so far.”

The Aliens, p. 113 (originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1947).
Short fiction, The Skit-Tree Planet (1947)

Murray Leinster Quotes about people

“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

(p. 115 in The Hugo Winners vol. 1 edited by Isaac Asimov).
Short fiction, Exploration Team (1956)

Murray Leinster Quotes

“Facts are facts! And if they’re impossible, they’re still facts!”

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 9 (p. 140).

“Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 4

“His reasoning was emotional, and therefore simple.”

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 8 (p. 102).

“It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

“He’d caused the First Native War on Mars, by taking advantage of the fact that at that time human law had not defined the killing of Martians as murder.”

The Aliens, p. 92 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1957).
Short fiction, Anthropological Note (1957)

“He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

“He was in a state of doubt which passed very well for modesty.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

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