Fredric Brown cytaty

Fredric Brown – amerykański pisarz science fiction. Jeden z pionierów gatunku, najbardziej znany z krótkich, humorystycznych utworów. Dziennikarz z wykształcenia, tworzył także powieści kryminalne.

Jedno z jego opowiadań, Arena, stało się podstawą scenariusza odcinka serialu Star Trek.

Brown został uhonorowany przez Roberta Heinleina, jako jeden z trzech adresatów dedykacji jego słynnej powieści Obcy w obcym kraju. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Październik 1906 – 11. Marzec 1972
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Fredric Brown słynne cytaty

Fredric Brown: Cytaty po angielsku

“Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.”

Fredric Brown książka The Mind Thing

Źródło: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 20 (p. 570)

“The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.”

Fredric Brown książka The Mind Thing

Źródło: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 15 (p. 534)

“Are you interested in science?”

Fredric Brown książka The Mind Thing

“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”
Źródło: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 13 (p. 520)

“Bad, I thought, looking around me, that I’d accumulated so much. A man should never own more stuff than he can carry in his hands at a dead run. It was bad, but it had happened.”

Fredric Brown książka The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Źródło: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 230)

“A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders.”

Fredric Brown książka The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Źródło: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 214)

“It’s indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhappiness in the old.”

Fredric Brown książka The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Źródło: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 1, “1997” (p. 147)

“He could see now what a lot of his mistakes had been—laziness among them. And laziness is curable.”

Fredric Brown książka What Mad Universe

Źródło: What Mad Universe (1949), Chapter 9 “The Dope on Dopelle” (p. 80)

“Well, let’s call his age as pushing sixty and not mention from which direction he was pushing it.”

The Ring of Hans Carvel (p. 637)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.”

Fredric Brown książka Martians, Go Home

Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 277)
Martians, Go Home (1955)

“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”

Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“Please concentrate on how the system is governed.”

Crag let his mind think about the two parties—both equally crooked and corrupt—that ran the planets between them, mostly by cynical horse trading methods that betrayed the common people on both sides. The Guilds and the Syndicates—popularly known as the Guilds and the Gildeds—one purporting to represent capital and the other purporting to represent labor, but actually betraying it at every opportunity. Both parties getting together to rig elections so they might win alternately and preserve an outward appearance of a balance of power and a democratic government. Justice, if any, obtainable only by bribery. Objectors or would-be reformers—and there weren’t many of either—eliminated by the hired thugs and assassins both parties used. Strict censorship of newspapers, radio and television, extending even to novels lest a writer attempt to slip in a phrase that might imply that the government under which he lived was less than perfect.
Źródło: Short fiction, Gateway to Glory (1950), pp. 610-611