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Robert Sheckley idézet

Robert Sheckley, , Hugo- és Nebula-díjas amerikai sci-fi író. Az 1950-es években kezdett publikálni sci-fi magazinokban.

Fantasztikus regényeiről és novelláiról híres, amelyekre az eleven, csavaros és legtöbbször komikus történetszövés jellemző. Műveiben a fő szerepet az emberi morál játssza. Szereplőit abszurd helyzetekbe helyezi, így megjelenik az ember a maga csupasz valójában.



Az SFWA

2001-ben Author Emeritus díjjal tüntette ki Sheckleyt. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. július 1928 – 9. december 2005
Robert Sheckley fénykép
Robert Sheckley: 114 idézet0 Kedvelés

Robert Sheckley: Idézetek angolul

“Hey, what is this,” he asked.
“I guess maybe you could call it like love,” Caroline said.
“Whaddaya mean, love?” Chet asked. “Your contract expressly forbids you to fall in love during the duration of your tenth kill, and it furthermore explicitly forbids you to fall in love with your Victim.”
“Love,” Caroline said coolly, “existed a long time before contracts.”

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“Contracts,” Martin said viciously, “are a lot more enforceable than love.”
Forrás: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 16 (pp. 136-137)

“Sanity is a matter of consensus.”

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Robert Sheckley Options

Forrás: Options

“Most men lead lives of quiet aspiration.”

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

Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?

“The deed of dying transcends class and breeding. It is every man’s patent of nobility, his summons from the king, his knightly adventure, the greatest deed of his life. And how he acquits himself in that lonely and perilous enterprise is his true measure as a man.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Immortality, Inc.

Forrás: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 15 (p. 71)

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv Mindswap

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

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

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

“What had he been taught? For the social good, you must be your own policeman and witness. You must assume responsibility for any crime which might conceivably be yours.
The face of the informer stared impassively at him. It was Barrent’s own face, reflected back from a mirror on the wall.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv The Status Civilization

Forrás: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 29 (p. 123)

“For Polletti, experience had brought only the bitter residue of pleasure which is the true essence of disenchantment. Certain delights which in his youth had seemed unique and unobtainable had turned out, upon acquisition, to be infinitely and drearily repeatable.”

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Forrás: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 15 (p. 130)

“She was an extremely attractive woman if you like the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.”

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Forrás: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 5 (p. 45)

“You have been bitten by the travel bug, which is very suitable for your time of life, and is a passion akin to falling in love, or fighting an idealistic war, or becoming disillusioned with the world, and other postures of the young.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Mindswap

Forrás: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 3 (p. 16)

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

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

“And yet, Blaine thought, mankind showed an historic ability to avoid the extremes of doom as well as the extremes of bliss. Chaos was forever prophesized and utopia was continually predicted, and neither came to pass.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Immortality, Inc.

Forrás: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 3 (p. 9)

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

Forrás: 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?”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

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

“Carmody’s jaw stiffened and he withdrew his hand. He had been pushed around long enough. Now, for the sake of his own self-esteem, he would not yield any more.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

Forrás: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 31)

““Machines!” the Clerk said scornfully. “We have many of them, some exquisitely complex. But event the best of them are much like idiot savants. They do adequately on tedious straightforward tasks like building stars or destroying planets. But give them something tough, like solacing a widow, and they simply go to pieces. Would you believe it, the largest computer in our section can landscape an entire planet; but it cannot fry an egg or carry a tune, and it knows less about ethics than a newborn wolf cub. Would you want something like that to run your life?”
“Of course not,” Carmody said. “But couldn’t someone build a machine with creativity and judgment?”
“Someone has,” the Clerk said. “It has been designed to learn from experience, which means that it must make errors in order to arrive at truths. It comes in many shapes and sizes, most of them quite portable. Its flaws are readily apparent, but seem to exist as necessary counterweights to it virtues. No one has yet improved on the basic design, though many have tried. This ingenious device is called ‘intelligent life.’””

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

Forrás: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 3 (pp. 25-26)

“Our roles are chose for us in this world by the stern dictates of an unrelenting Fate; and many a man who thought to play the emperor on Life’s stage found himself cast for a corpse instead.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Mindswap

Forrás: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 26 (p. 124)

“Once upon a time men resisted the implications of actuality. That day is gone. We know now that art is the thing itself together with its extensions into superfluity. Not pop art, I hasten to say, which sneers and exaggerates. This is popular art, which simply exists. This is the age in which we unconditionally accept the unacceptable, and thus proclaim the naturalness of our artificiality.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

Forrás: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 28 (p. 187)

“Remember, similitude need not imply exactitude.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

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

“Joenes’s students quickly absorbed the material given to them, passed their tests, and quickly forgot the material. Like many vital young organisms, they were able to eject anything harmful, disturbing, distressing, or merely boring. Of course they also ejected anything useful, stimulating, or thought provoking. This was perhaps regrettable, but it was part of the educative process to which every teacher had to accustom himself.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Forrás: Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Chapter 8 “How Joenes Taught, and What He Learned” (p. 69)

“On Omega, the law was kept secret. Older residents used their knowledge of the law to enforce their rule over the newcomers. This system was condoned and reinforced by the doctrine of the inequality of all men, which lay at the heart of the Omegan legal system. Through planned inequality and enforced ignorance, power and status remained in the hands of the older residents.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv The Status Civilization

Forrás: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 5 (p. 26)

“Reilly was fairly sure he’d survive after death; but he saw no reason to take chances. Also, Mr. Kean says that the very rich, like the very religious, wouldn’t enjoy a hereafter filled with just anybody. They think that, by suitable rites and symbols, they can get into a more exclusive part of the hereafter.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Immortality, Inc.

Forrás: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 20 (p. 91)

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv The Status Civilization

Forrás: 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?”

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Death of the Dreammaster (published in Martin H. Greenberg (ed.) The Further Adventures of Batman (1989), p. 24
Short fiction

“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Mindswap

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

““I’m afraid not. According to the law, you must leave here at once.”
“But they’ll kill me!”
“That’s very true,” Frendlyer said. “Unfortunately, it can’t be helped. A victim, by definition, is one who is to be killed.”
“I thought this was a protective organization.”
“It is. But we protect rights, not victims. Your rights are not being violated.“”

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Robert Sheckley könyv The Status Civilization

Forrás: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 3 (p. 19)

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv Dimension of Miracles

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

“Nature also gives rain and drought, heat and cold; and thoughtfully ensures that the rain rots man’s food, the drought parches it, the heat scalds man’s body, and the cold freezes his limbs.
These are only nature’s milder aspects, not to be compared to the wrathfulness of the sea, the frigid indifference of the mountains, the treachery of the swamp, the depravity of the desert, or the terror of the jungle. But I noticed that nature, in her hatred of mankind, provided that most of the earth’s surface be covered with sea, mountains, swamp, desert, and jungle.”

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Robert Sheckley könyv Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Forrás: Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Chapter 6 “Joenes and the Three #505justice Truck Drivers” (pp. 44-45)

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

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Robert Sheckley könyv Mindswap

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

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