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Robert Sheckley, né le 16 juillet 1928 à Brooklyn et mort le 9 décembre 2005 à Poughkeepsie , est un auteur de science-fiction américain. Collaborateur très régulier de la revue Galaxy dans les années 1950, il a écrit plus d'une centaine de nouvelles et une dizaine de romans.

Il écrit aussi sous les pseudonymes de Phillips Barbee, Ned Lang et Finn O'Donnevan.

✵ 16. juillet 1928 – 9. décembre 2005
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“Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du mal.”

Variante: Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.

“La Prédation est la Nécessité même.”

La Dimension des miracles, 1973

Robert Sheckley: Citations en anglais

“Sanity is a matter of consensus.”

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“Most men lead lives of quiet aspiration.”

Robert Sheckley livre Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?

Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?

““The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom,” the hermit quoted.”

Robert Sheckley livre Mindswap

Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 14 (p. 70)

“He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable—a routine miracle.”

Robert Sheckley livre La Dimension des miracles

Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 1 (p. 14)

“It was as easy as falling off a precipice.”

Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 3 (p. 28)

“I’ll follow the reedy tenor of his excuses and blast them with the bellowy bass of irrefutable logic!”

Robert Sheckley livre La Dimension des miracles

Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 33)

“Your predator is close behind you and will infallibly be your death.”
“I don’t doubt it,” Carmody said, in a moment of strange calm.” But in terms of long-range planning, I never did expect to get out of this Universe alive.”
“That is meaningless,” the Prize said. “The fact is, you have lost everything.”
“I don’t agree,” Carmody said. “Permit me to point out that I am presently still alive.”
“Agreed. But only for the moment.”
“I have always been alive only for the moment,” Carmody said. “I could never count on more. It was my error to expect more. That holds true, I believe, for all of my possible and potential circumstances.”
“Then what do you hope to achieve with your moment?”
“Nothing,” Carmody said. “Everything.”
“I don’t understand you any longer,” the Prize said. “Something about you has changed, Carmody. What is it?”
“A minor thing,” Carmody told him. “I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the Gods run in their heavenly sideshow. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don’t need it. I have my moment, which is quite enough.”
“Saint Carmody,” the Prize said, in tones of deepest sarcasm. “No more than a shadow’s breadth separates you and death! What will you do now with your pitiable moment?”

Robert Sheckley livre La Dimension des miracles

“I shall continue to live it,” Carmody said. “That is what moments are for.”
Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 28 (pp. 189-190; closing words)

“Remember, similitude need not imply exactitude.”

Robert Sheckley livre La Dimension des miracles

Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 24 (p. 159)

“They were shunned, and they had reacted to exclusion by exclusiveness.”

Robert Sheckley livre The Status Civilization

Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 12 (p. 56)

“I know you’re sane and you know you’re sane. But what if we’re both wrong?”

Death of the Dreammaster (published in Martin H. Greenberg (ed.) The Further Adventures of Batman (1989), p. 24
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“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”

Robert Sheckley livre Mindswap

Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)

“A little prescience goes a long way, especially in a galaxy as disorganized as this one.”

Robert Sheckley livre La Dimension des miracles

Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 34)

“Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.”

Robert Sheckley livre Mindswap

Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)

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