Œuvres
Un coup à la porte
Fredric BrownFredric Brown citations célèbres
“Confronté avec l'inconnu, l'esprit humain supplée quelque révélation pleine d'une horreur vague.”
Citations de ses nouvelles, Un coup à la porte, 1948
Citations de ses nouvelles, Un coup à la porte, 1948
“Le dernier homme sur la Terre était assis tout seul dans une pièce. Il y eut un coup à la porte…”
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…
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Il s'agit également des deux dernières phrases de la nouvelle… mais dont le sens s'avère totalement différent dans le contexte.
Citations de ses nouvelles, Un coup à la porte, 1948
Fredric Brown: Citations en anglais
Letter to a Phoenix (p. 337)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.”
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 20 (p. 570)
“The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.”
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 15 (p. 534)
“Are you interested in science?”
“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 13 (p. 520)
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 5 “2001” (pp. 243-244; "ascetism" should be "asceticism")
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 4 “2000” (p. 242)
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 230)
“A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders.”
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 214)
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 1, “1997” (p. 147)
“He could see now what a lot of his mistakes had been—laziness among them. And laziness is curable.”
Source: What Mad Universe (1949), Chapter 9 “The Dope on Dopelle” (p. 80)
“Well, let’s call his age as pushing sixty and not mention from which direction he was pushing it.”
The Ring of Hans Carvel (p. 637)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.”
Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 277)
Martians, Go Home (1955)
Come and Go Mad (p. 291)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
Pi in the Sky (p. 242)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
The Angelic Angleworm (p. 70)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”
Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“Please concentrate on how the system is governed.”
Crag let his mind think about the two parties—both equally crooked and corrupt—that ran the planets between them, mostly by cynical horse trading methods that betrayed the common people on both sides. The Guilds and the Syndicates—popularly known as the Guilds and the Gildeds—one purporting to represent capital and the other purporting to represent labor, but actually betraying it at every opportunity. Both parties getting together to rig elections so they might win alternately and preserve an outward appearance of a balance of power and a democratic government. Justice, if any, obtainable only by bribery. Objectors or would-be reformers—and there weren’t many of either—eliminated by the hired thugs and assassins both parties used. Strict censorship of newspapers, radio and television, extending even to novels lest a writer attempt to slip in a phrase that might imply that the government under which he lived was less than perfect.
Source: Short fiction, Gateway to Glory (1950), pp. 610-611
