Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“I can’t evaluate my opinions of right and wrong because I learned them from my parents and haven’t lived long enough to have formed opinions in disagreement with theirs.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XI : “—citizens must protect themselves.”, p. 98

““You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”
“Thank you too much.”
“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Starman Jones

Origine: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 210)

“Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); this is another line not in the "Uncut" edition of 1991 based on his original manuscripts, because this was one of the lines that Heinlein added, rather than trimmed down, during the editing process of the first edition.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

“Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Sixth Column

Origine: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Starman Jones

Origine: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 12, “Halcyon” (p. 135)

“See how involved it gets? Clover, bees, nitrogen, escape speed, power, plant-animal balance, gas laws, compound interest laws, meteorology—a mathematical ecologist has to think of everything and think of it ahead of time. Ecology is explosive; what seems like a minor and harmless invasion can change the whole balance.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Farmer in the Sky

Origine: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 12, “Bees and Zeroes” (p. 125)

“He had let himself be bulldozed by the odds against him. He promised himself never again to pay any attention to the odds, but only to the issues.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Origine: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 45)

“If you’re going to be businessmen, don’t confuse the vocation with larceny.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Rolling Stones

Origine: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (p. 61)

“He’ll pay no mind to me anyhow,” MacRae answered. “That’s the healthy thing about kids.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Red Planet

Origine: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 9, “Politics”, p. 133

“Don’t worry about it. There is less here than meets the eye.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 497

““Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.””

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Robert A. Heinlein

“Methuselah’s Children” Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 667; closing words
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“I was just trying to show you,” he went on, “just how insubstantial a ‘common sense’ idea can be when you pin it down. Neither ‘common sense’ nor ‘logic’ can prove anything. Proof comes from experiment, or to put it another way, from experience, and from nothing else.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Rocket Ship Galileo

Origine: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105

“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Sixth Column

Origine: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

““He posed me a question which I must answer correctly—else he will not co-operate.”
“Huh? What was the question?
“I’ll ask you. Martha, what is the meaning of life?”
“What! Why, what a stupid question!”
“He did not ask it stupidly.”
“It’s a psychopathic question, unlimited, unanswerable, and, in all probability, sense free.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 2, “Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief—”, p. 35; see also pages 31, 33

“Here is the wisdom of the ages: Men rule but women decide.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVII : “There are no tomorrows.”, p. 464

“I venture to predict that, when we get around to reviewing their records, we will find that the rebels were almost all—all, perhaps—men who had never been outstandingly successful at anything. Their only prominence was among themselves.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 10, “—the only game in town”, p. 104

“Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can't do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Origine: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564

““What is a ‘hunch’?”
“Eh? It’s a belief that something is so, or isn’t so, without evidence.”
“I’d call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il terrore dalla sesta luna

Origine: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 28 (p. 149)

“It is the most indecent outfit I’ve ever seen, with no other purpose than to excite lewd, libidinous, lascivious, licentious, lecherous, lustful longings in the loins of Lotharios.”
“Isn’t that the purpose of clothing?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

“Well...aside from protection—yes.”
Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVI : “I’m gifted with second sight.”, p. 456

“A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Starman Jones

Origine: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 111)