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Charles Sheffield, né le 25 juin 1935 à Hull en Angleterre et décédé le 2 novembre 2002 à Rockville dans l'état du Maryland aux États-Unis, est un mathématicien, physicien et écrivain de science-fiction et de fantasy britannique. Wikipedia

✵ 25. juin 1935 – 2. novembre 2002

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Charles Sheffield: Citations en anglais

“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Between the Strokes of Night

Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)

“A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Between the Strokes of Night

Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 28 (p. 322)

“It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 19 (p. 251)

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)

“When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)

“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 11 (pp. 148-149)

“To a political mind, everything is politics.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 3 (p. 23)

“You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.”

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Charles Sheffield livre Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 11)

“War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.”

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Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus Unbound (1989), Chapter 14 (p. 330)

“It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.”

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Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Sight of Proteus (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 73)