John Brunner idézetek
John Brunner: Idézetek angolul
“So what do you think will happen?”
Sawyer asked the barman who was drawing his mid-morning pint.
“Dunno,” the man grunted. “Except one thing. I know we’ve been led by fools and rogues, but this is the first time we’ve ever been led by a criminal!”
Forrás: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 23 (p. 177)
“Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.”
Forrás: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 19 (p. 122)
“What’s the price of life?” Donald countered bitterly.
continuity (37) “Storage”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
He jerked his thumb at a window beyond which the city’s treasure-house of coloured light glimmered gaudily.
continuity (13) “Multiply by a Million”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
I say “we,” but if you’re a Bible-thumping fundamentalist I expect you at this point to take the book by one corner at arm’s length and ceremonially consign it to the place where you put most sensible ideas, along with everything else you decline to acknowledge the existence of, such as mainly shit.
context (5) “The Grand Manor”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“What are you going to do for a career?”
Diverted from his orbit, Donald binked. “Well, something which uses up a minimum of my time, I imagine. So I can use the rest to mortar up the gaps in my education.”
continuity (3) “After One Decade”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?”
Forrás: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 69)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78, “No, Of Course Logorrhea Isn’t What Happens When You Break a Log-Jam But the Result Is Pretty Much the Same for Anyone Who’s in the Way ” (p. 282)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 51, “If Your Number Comes Up Then Your Number Comes Up and That’s All There Is to It So What’s the Use of Worrying That’s What I Always Say” (p. 163)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 46, “Why’s, After the Event” (p. 143)
“The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.”
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 45 (p. 135; chapter title)
“Like all neo-puritans you have a mind like an open drain.”
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 44, “A Firm Decision to Go Into the Wagon-Fixing Business in a Big Way” (p. 132)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 34 (p. 100; chapter title)
“If “media” is the plural of “medium” the question is: how many of them are fraudulent?”
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 17 (p. 57; chapter title)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 15 (p. 49; chapter title)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 6, “The Where It’s At and the Whyfore It Should Be There” (p. 26)
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 10)
“So what shape was the world in this morning? Even flatter than yesterday.”
Forrás: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 9)