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Murray Leinster, né le 16 juin 1896 à Norfolk en Virginie et mort le 8 juin 1975 à Gloucester Courthouse en Virginie, est le pseudonyme de William Fitzgerald Jenkins, un auteur américain de science-fiction et d'uchronies.

Plusieurs de ses nouvelles et un roman ont été édités sous le pseudonyme de Will F. Jenkins. Il utilisait aussi parfois les signatures William Fitzgerald et Robert W. Bolton. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. juin 1896 – 8. juin 1975
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Murray Leinster: Citations en anglais

“This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 4

“Desolate and dreary as the little town was in the world of today, it was infinitely more liveable than the same town of nearly two centuries before. There had been much progress in how to do things. It was regrettable that there was less progress in knowledge of things worth doing.”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 59).

““You are wonderful!” she said with conviction.
“I used to cherish that illusion myself,” said Hoddan.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 5

“I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 22).

“From the Near Rim to the farthest of occupied systems, planets circled their suns, and men lived on them, and every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

“A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 6

“Facts are facts! And if they’re impossible, they’re still facts!”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 9 (p. 140).

“It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 45).

““We’re fools!” said Harrison. “Morons! Idiots!”
“If you speak of my altruism,” said Pepe cheerfully, “I agree. But if you speak of your interest in a very pretty girl, then I point out that nobody is ever as happy as while he is making a fool of himself over a woman.”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 24).

“When in the course of human events somebody does something that puts somebody else to the trouble of adjusting the numb routine of his life, the adjustee is resentful. The richer he is and the more satisfactory he considers his life, the more resentful he is at any change, however minute. And of all the changes which offend people, changes which require them to think are most disliked.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 1

“It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 21).

“Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 4

“But it might not be true enough. It might be less than…well…sufficiently true in a particular instance.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 9

“Most men develop convictions about the cosmos and such beliefs come in two varieties. One kind is a conviction that the cosmos does not make sense. That it exists by chance and changes by chance and human beings do not matter. This view produces a fine complacency. The other kind is a belief that the cosmos does make sense, and was designed with the idea that people were going to live in it, and that what they do and what happens to them is important. This theory seems to be depressing.”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 1 (p. 8).

““You’ve got to do something!” insisted Fani. “I saw Father talking to them! He looked happy, and he never looks happy unless he’s planning some skulduggery!””

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 6

““It’s no use!” it was the custom of his grandfather to say. “There’s not a bit o’ use in having brains! All they do is get you into trouble! A lucky idiot’s ten times better off than a brainy man with a jinx on him! A smart man starts thinkin’, and he thinks himself into a jail cell if his luck is bad, and good luck’s wasted on him because it ain’t reasonable and he don’t believe in it when it happens! It’s taken me a lifetime to keep my brains from ruinin’ me! No, sir! I hope none o’ my descendants inherit my brains! I pity ‘em if they do!”
Hoddan had been on Darth not more than four hours. In that time he’d found himself robbed, had resented it, had been the object of two spirited attempts at assassination, had ridden an excruciating number of miles on an unfamiliar animal, and now found himself in a stone dungeon and deprived of food lest feeding him obligate his host not to cut his throat. And he’d gotten into this by himself! He’d chosen it! He’d practically asked for it!
He began strongly to share his grandfather’s disillusioned view of brains.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 4

“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

“He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

“It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet…”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 21).

“Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

“Put dispassionately,” said Haynes cheerfully, “you sound like you’re crazy. But you’re stating facts. Okay so far.”

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The Aliens, p. 113 (originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1947).
Short fiction, The Skit-Tree Planet (1947)

“He’d gone to Walden in the hope of achievement. There, of course, he failed because in a free economy industrialists consider that freedom is the privilege to be stupid without penalty. In other than free economies, of course, stupidity is held to be the duty of administrators. But Hoddan now believed himself in the fascinating situation of having knowledge and abilities which were needed by people who knew their need.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

“There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.”

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Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 19).

“There was a beautiful row. You’ve really scared people, Hoddan! You deserve well of the republic! Every government and every person needs to be thoroughly terrified occasionally. It limbers up the brain.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

“It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

“He’d caused the First Native War on Mars, by taking advantage of the fact that at that time human law had not defined the killing of Martians as murder.”

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The Aliens, p. 92 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1957).
Short fiction, Anthropological Note (1957)

“He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

“It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 5

“There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 1

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