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Alfred Bester, né le 18 décembre 1913 à New York et mort le 30 septembre 1987 à Doylestown, en Pennsylvanie, est un auteur américain de science-fiction. Il a gagné le premier prix Hugo du meilleur roman en 1953 pour son roman sur la télépathie : L'Homme démoli . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. décembre 1913 – 30. septembre 1987

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L'Homme démoli
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Terminus, les étoiles
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Les Clowns de l'Éden
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“Il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir un objet de croyance. Il suffit de croire qu'il existe quelque part quelque chose qui est digne de croyance.”

Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Terminus les étoiles, 1955

“Une dépendance mutuelle implique une foi mutuelle.”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

“Quand la vie devient trop dure, on a tendance à se réfugier dans l'idée qu'elle n'est que faux semblant… une colossale mystification.”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

“L'esprit conscient ne peut pas faire face au conflit entre l'inconscient et le monde extérieur. Il regrette d'être né. Il essaie de revenir au stade du fœtus.”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

“On ne peut pas tuer un homme dans un accident de chasse si on ne va pas à la chasse.”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

Alfred Bester Citations

“La peste sait-elle le péril qu'elle représente?”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

“L'essence même de la découverte est de trouver ce que l'on n'avait pas prévu.”

Alfred Bester livre Les Clowns de l'Éden

Les Clowns de l'Éden, 1974

“Le désir est père de la pensée.”

Alfred Bester

, 1974

pensée

“Pour faire en sorte que quelqu'un désire quelque chose, il suffit de lui montrer que quelqu'un d'autre le désire encore plus.”

Alfred Bester livre Les Clowns de l'Éden

Les Clowns de l'Éden, 1974

sortie , sort

“Les gens s'attendent toujours à ce que les traîtres aient un visage de traître.”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

traître

“La semence sait-elle ce qu'elle est lorsqu'elle ne réussit pas à trouver un sol fertile?”

Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

L'Homme démoli, 1952

Alfred Bester: Citations en anglais

“Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination

“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination

“Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses… Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.”

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Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

Source: The Demolished Man

“Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 188).

“Eight, sir; seven, sir;
Six, sir; five, sir;
Four, sir; Three, sir;
Two, sir; one!
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.”

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Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

Source: The Demolished Man

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Variante: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).

“Wait,” Foyle commanded. He looked at the beaming grin engraved in the steel robot face. “But society can be so stupid. So confused. You’ve witnessed this conference.”
“Yes, sir, but you must teach, not dictate. You must teach society.”
“To space-jaunte? Why? Why reach out to the stars and galaxies? What for?”
“Because you’re alive, sir. You might as well ask: Why is life? Don’t ask about it. Live it.”
“Quite mad,” Dagenham muttered.
“But fascinating,” Y’ang-Yeovil murmured.
“There’s got to be more to life than just living,” Foyle said to the robot.
“Then find it for yourself, sir. Don’t ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.”
“Why can’t we all move forward together?”
“Because you’re all different. You’re not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.”
“Who leads?”
“The men who must … driven men, compelled men.”
“Freak men.”
“You’re all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.”
“Thank you very much.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

“My pleasure, sir.”
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 251).

“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”

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Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

Source: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 28).

“He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 1 (p. 19).

“Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.”

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Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

Source: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 9 (p. 114).

“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).

““Neither of us is very trustworthy, eh?”
“Pfutz!” Reich said emphatically. “We don’t play girl’s rules. We play for keeps, both of us. It’s the cowards and weaklings and sore-losers who hide behind rules and fair play.”
“What about honor and ethics?”
“We’ve got honor in us, but it’s our own code… not the make-believe rules some frightened little man wrote for the rest of the frightened little men. Every man’s got his own honor and ethics, and so long as he sticks to ’em, who’s anybody else to point the finger? You may not like his ethics, but you've no right to call him unethical.””

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Alfred Bester livre L'Homme démoli

Source: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 6 (p. 84).

“We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 6 (p. 98).

“That’s me,” he said, motioning to the robot. “That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response…mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 247).

““Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.”
“Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.””

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).

“Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.”

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Alfred Bester livre Terminus, les étoiles

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 194).

“Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.”

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Alfred Bester livre The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

in Hartwell ed. The World Treasury of Science Fiction, p. 268 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1958)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)