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“(à un extraterrestre) : Bonjour Toto!”
Fredric Brown livre Un coup à la porte
Citations de ses nouvelles, Un coup à la porte, 1948
“Confronté avec l'inconnu, l'esprit humain supplée quelque révélation pleine d'une horreur vague.”
Fredric Brown livre Un coup à la porte
Citations de ses nouvelles, Un coup à la porte, 1948
Fredric Brown livre Un coup à la porte
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…”
Fredric Brown livre 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
Fredric Brown livre Letter to a Phoenix
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.”
Fredric Brown livre The Mind Thing
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 20 (p. 570)
Fredric Brown livre The Mind Thing
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 18 (p. 555)
“The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.”
Fredric Brown livre The Mind Thing
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 15 (p. 534)
“Are you interested in science?”
Fredric Brown livre The Mind Thing
“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 13 (p. 520)
Fredric Brown livre Rogue in Space
Source: Rogue in Space (1957), Chapter 7 (p. 406)
Fredric Brown livre Rogue in Space
Source: Rogue in Space (1957), Chapter 3 (p. 364)
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 5 “2001” (pp. 243-244; "ascetism" should be "asceticism")
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 4 “2000” (p. 242)
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
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.”
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 214)
Fredric Brown livre The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
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.”
Fredric Brown livre What Mad Universe
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.”
Fredric Brown livre Martians, Go Home
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