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Laurence van Cott Niven, dit Larry Niven, né le 30 avril 1938 à Los Angeles, en Californie, est un auteur américain de science-fiction et de fantasy. Son œuvre la plus connue est le roman L'Anneau-Monde publié en 1970, premier livre du cycle de l'Anneau-Monde. Il est l'inventeur de l'univers de fiction Univers connu . Wikipedia  

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“Quand je commence à m'ennuyer, je vais risquer ma vie quelque part.”

Citations de ses romans, L'Anneau-Monde, 1970

“Cela doit être très intéressant d'appartenir à une race où les deux sexes sont pensants.”

Citations de ses romans, L'Anneau-Monde, 1970

“Je peux aider ta planète, Louis. Tes semblables connaissent peu de chose de leur sexualité.”

Citations de ses romans, L'Anneau-Monde, 1970

“La perversité de l'univers tend vers un maximum. L'univers est hostile.”

Citations de ses romans, L'Anneau-Monde, 1970

“La chaleur est un des déchets que produit la civilisation.”

Citations de ses romans, L'Anneau-Monde, 1970

Larry Niven: Citations en anglais

“There is never no hope left. Remember.”

Larry Niven livre The Ringworld Engineers

Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 280

“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”

As quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes : Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine (1997) by Reader's Digest Association, p. 27

“Think of it as evolution in action.”

Larry Niven livre Oath of Fealty

Oath of Fealty (1982) (co-written with Jerry Pournelle)

““Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.””

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)

“He liked everything about the university except the students.”

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)

“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”

Larry Niven livre The Ringworld Throne

The Ringworld Throne (1996)

““That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”
Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.””

Larry Niven livre The Borderland of Sol

The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.”

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 491)

“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”

Larry Niven livre The Ringworld Engineers

Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 68

“Fear is the brother of hate.”

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 72

“I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.”

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 40 “Farewell” (p. 397)

“She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.”

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 486)

“Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.”

Larry Niven livre The Ringworld Engineers

Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 282

“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”

There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”

Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)

“Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.”

Larry Niven livre The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 53 “The Djinn” (p. 516; spoken by a politician to a scientist)

“The majority is always sane.”

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 177

“Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.”

The Warriors (p. 151)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

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