Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 21)

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“Oh, we get along. She lets me have my own way, and later I find out I’ve done just what she wanted me to do.”

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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. 130

“Don took it and said, “Uh, thanks! That’s awfully kind of you. I’ll pay it back, first chance.”
“Instead, pay it forward to some other brother who needs it.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Origine: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 8, “Foxes Have Holes, and Birds of the Air Have Nests—” (p. 91)

“So-called instincts are instructive, Felix. They point to survival values.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Origine: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 76

“All humans are created unequal. You are bigger and stronger than Pop; I am bigger and stronger than Hilda. I have the least years of experience; Pop has the most. Pop is a super-genius…but he concentrates so hard that he forgets to eat…unless he has a nursemaid to watch him—as Mama did, as I did, as Hilda now does. You, sir, are the all-around most competent man I’ve ever met, whether driving a duo, or dancing, or telling outrageous tales. Three of us have eight or nine earned degrees…but Aunt Hilda with none is a walking encyclopedia from insatiable curiosity and extraordinary memory. We two are baby factories and you two are not—but two men can impregnate fifty women—or five hundred. There is no end to the ways that we four are unequal.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXI : “—the first ghosts ever to search for an obstetrician.”, p. 321

“Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.”

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The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Contesto: Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

“Life is not merely persistent, as Jock puts it; life is explosive. The basic theorem of population mathematics to which there has never been found an exception is that population increases always, not merely up to the extent of the food supply, but beyond it, to the minimum diet that will sustain life—the ragged edge of starvation.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Farmer in the Sky

Origine: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 196)

“I trust that I am honest with myself. I know that I am not very sociable and I expect to go on being so; a man capable of creative work has no time to spare for fools who would like to visit.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 249

“From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Origine: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 1, p. 24

“An invention is something that was “impossible” up to then—that’s why governments grant patents.”

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Origine: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 6

“I am learning that we still have things to learn.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il numero della bestia

Origine: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIV : “Quit worrying and enjoy the ride.”, p. 128

“Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Red Planet

Origine: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 49

“If at Last You Do Succeed, Never Try Again.”

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

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“Friday, don't despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Friday (1983)

“A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Sixth Column

Origine: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 9 (p. 108)

“How long has this racket been going on?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Grumbles from the Grave

Remark after receiving a $70 US check for his first published story.
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

“There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Straniero in terra straniera

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

“He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Origine: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)

“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Assignment in Eternity

Assignment in Eternity (1953)

“The Koran cannot be translated — the "map" changes on translation no matter how carefully one tries.”

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Robert A. Heinlein, in Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)