Alfred Bester Quotes

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• The mind is the reality. You are what you think.
• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune…
• One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got…
• The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
• Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
• Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of…
• The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more…
• The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
• Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.
• I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful…
• I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.
• Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
• It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real…
• Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy…
• Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses...…
• If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out…
• Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension,…
• There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world…

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