Robert Silverberg słynne cytaty
Robert Silverberg: Cytaty po angielsku
Book 5 “The Book of the Castle”, Chapter 4 (pp. 424-425)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
“Moas aren’t very bright,” Gracchus answers. “That’s one good reason why they became extinct.”
Short fiction, Born with the Dead (1974)
Źródło: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 1, section 3 (p. 17)
Źródło: Short fiction, Against Babylon (1986), p. 264
Źródło: Short fiction, Hot Times in Magma City (1995), p. 56
“I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen.”
Book 1, Chapter 15 (p. 113)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
“Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.”
Źródło: Short fiction, The Emperor and the Maula (2007), p. 476
“What value is lineage to a drowning man?”
Źródło: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 40 (p. 142)
“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”
Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg
“Research, he calls it. Research.”
Pitkin sneered. “Junkie!”
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. “Economist!”
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
“Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.”
Źródło: The World Inside (1971), Chapter 6 (p. 451)
Źródło: Downward to the Earth (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 231)
Źródło: Thorns (1967), Chapter 21, “And Southward Aye We Fled” (p. 106)
“She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.”
Źródło: Thorns (1967), Chapter 18, “To the Toy Fair” (p. 85)
“The fascination of what’s difficult,” said Chalk. “It spins the world on its bearings.”
Źródło: Thorns (1967), Chapter 1, “The Song the Neurons Sang” (p. 7)
“Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward.”
Źródło: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 7 “We Play a Little Game” (p. 122)
“Like all bureaucrats, he was bewildered by an unpredictable development.”
Źródło: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 2 “The Realm of Moctezuma XII” (p. 33)
“The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.”
Źródło: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 15 (p. 62)
“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”
Źródło: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 7 (p. 25)
“A man who lies to himself is the worst liar of all.”
Źródło: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 162)
Źródło: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 158)
“Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.”
Źródło: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 1 “Across the Ocean Sea” (p. 23)
