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Algis Budrys: Citations en anglais

“Now you think about this, too: you’re not charming, dashing, or debonair. You’re funny looking, as a matter of fact. You’re too busy to spare much time for me, and even if you did take me out night-clubbing somewhere, you’d be so out of place that I couldn’t enjoy it. But you do one thing: you let me feel that my rules are as worthwhile to me as yours are to you. When you ask me to do something, I know you won’t be hurt if I refuse. And if I do it, you don’t feel that you’ve scored a point in some kind of complex game. You don’t try to use me, cozen me, or change me. I take up as much room in the world, the way you see it, as you do. Do you have any idea of how rare a thing that is?”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 6 (pp. 127-128)

“He saw Hawks, grunted, hefted the bottle and said, “I hate the stuff. It tastes lousy, it makes me gag, it stinks, and it burns my mouth. But they keep putting it in your hands, and they keep saying ‘Drink up!’ to each other, and ‘What’s the matter, Charlie, falling a little behind, there? Freshen up that little drinkee for you?” Until you feel like a queer of some kind, and a bore for the times you say you don’t want another one, positively. And they fill their folklore with it, until you wouldn’t dream you were having a good time unless you’d swilled enough of the stuff to poison yourself all the next day. And they talk gentleman talk about it—ages and flavors and brands and blends, as if it wasn’t all ethanol in one concentration or another. Have you ever heard two Martini drinkers in a bar, Hawks? Have you ever heard two shamans swapping magic?””

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 5, Section 6 (p. 112)

“There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculate.”

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Algis Budrys livre Who?

Source: Who? (1958), p. 53

“It hadn’t had to take the form of this terrible bubble. It might as easily have been a sudden sharp burst behind his eyes or a slower, subtler gnawing at his vitals. But he’d known it was coming, as every man knows and tries to forget it is coming.”

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The Burning World, p. 64
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“There has to be an end somewhere, he thought. Each thing has to end, or there will never be any room for beginnings.”

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The End of Summer, p. 32
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.”

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The Burning World, p. 58
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“Look, if I could guarantee what the results were going to be, I wouldn’t need a research program!”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 3, Section 2 (p. 57)

“Claire threw her head and laughed. “There are all kinds of men. The only kind that’re worth anyone’s time are the ones I can’t mangle the first time out.””

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 1, Section 3 (p. 22)

“That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.”

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Algis Budrys livre Who?

Source: Who? (1958), p. 96

“Williamson threw his hands carefully up to heaven and snorted again. Apparently, everything Fay said served to confirm some judgment of mankind on his part.”

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The End of Summer, p. 22
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“I know what Claire is. You know I know it. I told you the first minute I met you. But did you ever stop to think it’s all worth it to me? Every time she makes a pass at another man, I know she’s comparing. She’s out on the open market, shopping. And being shopped for. I don’t have any collar around her neck She’s not tame. I’m not a habit to her. I’m not something she’s tied to by any law. And every time she winds up coming back to me, you know what that proves. It proves I’m still the toughest man in the pack. Because she wouldn’t stay if I wasn’t.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 5, Section 6 (p. 113)

“Amnesia was the price of immortality.”

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The End of Summer, p. 27
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“Once he’d been in his twenties, looking forward. Now he was a shade past fifty, and what he looked back on was subtly less satisfactory than what he had looked forward to.”

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The Executioner, p. 122 (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.”

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The End of Summer, p. 23
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

““Can I drive you down to your house?”
The man flicked an expressive glance along the car’s length and shook his head. “Thanks. I’ll walk. There’s still a law of averages.”
And you can take that phrase and carve it on Humanity’s headstone, Fay thought bitterly, but did not reply.”

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The End of Summer, p. 14 (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 3, Section 5 (p. 71)

“There’re all kinds of people in this world. But they break down into two main groups, one big and one smaller. There’s the people who get moved out of the way or into line, and then there’s the people who do the moving. It’s safer and a lot more comfortable to go where you’re pushed. You don’t take any of the responsibility, and if you do what you’re told, every once in a while you get thrown a fish.
“Being a mover isn’t safe, because you may be heading for a hole, and it isn’t comfortable because you do a lot of jostling back and forth, and what’s more, it’s up to you to get your own fish. But it’s a hell of a lot of fun.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

He looked into Hawks’ eyes. “Isn’t it?”
Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 1, Section 2 (pp. 12-13)

“You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, “but apparently there’s some gray matter left in your artfully coiffed skull after all.”

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The End of Summer, p. 22
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“Of course, you have to remind yourself that you might be seeing things that were never there. You might be maneuvering your memories to bring them into line with what you’d want them to be. You can’t be sure you’re not just daydreaming.”

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Algis Budrys livre Who?

Source: Who? (1958), p. 119

“Young man, you’re living proof that our basic policy is right. I wouldn’t trust an ignoramus like you with the information required to cut his throat.”

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The End of Summer, p. 23
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“Does it not seem to you, Justice Joyce, that this series of statistics might well occur without the intervention of any Divine Will whatsoever?”

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The Executioner, p. 136
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 5, Section 6 (p. 116)

“Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor’s lives, that some people were offensive.
There were people with moral codes they clung to and lived by, people who worshiped in what they held to be the only orthodox way, people who clung to some idea—some rock on which their lives rested. Well and good. But if they tried to inflict these reforms on their neighbors, patience could only go so far, and the tolerance of fanaticism lasts just so long.”

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The Burning World, p. 57 (originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, July 1957)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it. You must know that as well as I do.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 1, Section 3 (p. 27)

“Wasn’t being a dilettante the result of an inner conviction that you were too good for routine living?”

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The End of Summer, p. 30
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

““Armies!” he burst out. “The day Freemen organize to invade another area is the day they stop being Freemen. They become soldiers, loyal to the army and their generals. They lose their identification with their homes and families. They become a separate class—an armed, organized class of military specialists no one family can stand against. And on that day, freedom dies for everybody.”

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Algis Budrys

The Burning World, pp. 57-58
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

“Death is in the nature of the universe, Barker. Death is only the operation of a mechanism. All the universe has been running down from the moment of its creation. Did you expect a machine to care what it acted upon? Death is like sunlight or a falling star; they don’t care where they fall. Death cannot see the pennants on a lance, or the wreath of glory in a dying man’s hand. Flags and flowers are the inventions of life. When a man dies, he falls into enemy hands—an ignorant enemy, who doesn’t merely spit on banners but who doesn’t even know what banners are. No ordinary man could stand to find that out. You found it out today. You sat in the laboratory and were speechless at the injustice of it. You’d never thought that justice was only another human invention.”

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Algis Budrys livre Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 5, Section 6 (p. 117)

“The horse is a stubborn, dirty, stupid animal that reminds me of a sheep. Its only use is to embody the wings a man feels within him, and to do this it lathers and sweats, defecates and steps in badger holes.”

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Algis Budrys livre Michaelmas

Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 184)

“I don’t know...but then, if God had intended Man to think, He would have given him brains, I suppose.”

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Algis Budrys livre Michaelmas

Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 163)

“Even so, we’re the only animal whose signals can’t be trusted by its own kind.”

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Algis Budrys livre Michaelmas

He smiled. “Except for thee and me, of course.”
Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 160)

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