Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 16)

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“He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Life-Line

Life-Line (p. 16)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Origine: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 305 (1988 Ace reprint; ISBN 9780441748600)

““The Great Egg must love human beings, he made a lot of them.”
“Same argument applies to oysters, only more so.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 13, “No more privacy than a guppy in an aquarium”, p. 127

“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Tunnel in the Sky

Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2

“His bow to me must have been calculated on a slide rule; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet, that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian — then subtract five degrees for the fact that he wore the Emperor’s aiguillette on his right shoulder.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Stella doppia

Double Star (1956)

“They made the predictable fuss about taking a cat into a room and an autobellhop is not responsive to bribes—hardly an improvement. But the assistant manager had more flexibility in his synapses; He listened to reason as long as it was crisp and rustled.”

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Origine: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 12

“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 16, p. 200
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82

““Sharpie, you’ve got a one-track mind.”
“It’s the main track. Reproduction is the main track; the methods and mores of sexual copulation are the central feature of all higher developments of life.”
“You’re ignoring money and television.”
“Piffle! All human activities including scientific research are either mating dances and care of the young, or the dismal sublimations of born losers in the only game in town.””

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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. 100

“No philosopher allows his opinions to be swayed by facts—he would be kicked out of his guild. Theologians, the lot of them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter VI : Are men and women one race?, p. 54

““Peewee!” I said sharply. “You're not listening.”
“What were you doing talking,” she answered reasonably, “when I wasn’t listening?””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

“I hadn’t learned much in high school; I had majored in girls.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 81

“Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 45

“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 401)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they—" is almost always, "Money."”

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Shooting Destination Moon (1950)

“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Revolt in 2100

Revolt in 2100 (1953), postscript

“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il terrore dalla sesta luna

Origine: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 158)

“Never Do Yesterday What Should Be Done Tomorrow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Space Cadet

Origine: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 10 “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?”, p. 126

“I carried out my purpose: War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and so forth. Would you believe it? Something is gained in translation; the originals are even more depressing and soporific than translations. I’m not sure what purpose Russian fiction has, but it can’t be entertainment.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIX : Something is gained in translation—, p. 166