Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.

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“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

“At fourteen months he began speaking in sentences, short and of his own structure, but sentences. The subjects of his conversation, or, rather, his statements, were consistently egocentric. Normal again—no one expects an infant to write essays on the beauties of altruism.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 131

“I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Origine: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 442

“At that point I realized that I had been thinking in Russian. It’s a wonderful language for paranoid thoughts.”

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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

“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 12

“A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Origine: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 14, p. 224

“The truth of a proposition has little or nothing to do with its psychodynamics. The notion that ‘truth will prevail’ is merely a pious wish; history doesn’t show it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Methuselah's Children

Methuselah’s Children (p. 606)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“I dictated my report; forty recruitments all okayed by the Psych Bureau — counting my own, which I knew would be okayed. I was here, wasn't I? Then I taped a request for assignment to operations; I was sick of recruiting.”

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

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

““If there was anything, anything more at all, after this crazy mix-up we call living, I could feel that there might be some point to the whole frantic business, even if I did not know and could not know the full answer while I was alive.”
“And suppose there was not? Suppose that when a man’s body disintegrates, he himself disappears absolutely. I’m bound to say I find it a probable hypothesis.”
“Well— It wouldn’t be cheerful knowledge, but it would be better than not knowing. You could plan your life rationally, at least. A man might even be able to get a certain amount of satisfaction in planning things better for the future, after he’s gone. A vicarious pleasure in the anticipation.””

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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. 105

““You know the answers, but just between ourselves, that sketch smells a bit. It’s sloppy.”
“I never did have any artistic talent,” Art said defensively. “I’d rather take a photograph any day.”
“You’ve taken too many photographs, maybe. As for artistic talent, I haven’t any either, but I learned to sketch. Look, Art—the rest of you guys get this, too—if you can’t sketch, you can’t see. If you really see what you’re looking at, you can put it down on paper, accurately. If you really remember what you have looked at, you can sketch it accurately from memory.”
“But the lines don’t go where I intend them to.”
“A pencil will go where you push it. It hasn’t any life of its own. The answer is practice and more practice and thinking about what you are looking at. All of you lugs want to be scientists. Well, the ability to sketch accurately is as necessary to a scientist as his slipstick. More necessary, you can get along without a slide rule.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Rocket Ship Galileo

Origine: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 108

“Protoplasm is protean; any simple protoplasm can become any complex form of life under mutation and selection.”

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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. 126

“Man needs freedom, but few men are so strong as to be happy with complete freedom. A man needs to be part of a group, with accepted and respected relationships. Some men join foreign legions for adventure; still more swear on a bit of paper in order to acquire a framework of duties and obligations, customs and taboos, a time to work and a time to loaf, a comrade to dispute with and a sergeant to hate—in short, to belong.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Origine: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 7, “The Detour” (p. 83)

“As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 371

“Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory performance through extremely complex compromise; third, a final stage of smooth simplicity and efficient performance based on correct understanding of natural laws and proper design therefrom.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Rolling Stones

Origine: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (pp. 52-53)

“I glanced at the ring on my finger.
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever … I know where I came from — but where did all you zombies come from?”

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

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“We don’t have to be convincing—not in the sense of getting converts. Real converts might prove to be a nuisance. We just have to be convincing enough to look like a legitimate religion to our overlords. And that doesn’t have to be very convincing. All religions look equally silly from the outside.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Sixth Column

Origine: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 6 (p. 70)

“But as grandpop always said, there are just three ways to get ahead; sweat and genius, getting born into the right family, or marrying into it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Starman Jones

Origine: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 8, “Three Ways to Get Ahead” (p. 82)

“There is no subject inappropriate for scientific research. Johann, we’ve let you fellows have a monopoly of such matters for too long. The most serious questions in the world have been left to faith or speculation. It is time for scientists to cope with them, or admit that science is no more than pebble counting.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 11, “—then a man is something more than his genes!”, p. 111

“I don’t think Father Hugo is any more mistaken than the most learned theologian and he might be closer to the truth. Jacob, I don’t think anyone knows Who’s in charge.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Origine: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 459

“Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Origine: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 5