Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese

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

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“Mary? After all, what was she? Just another babe. True, I was disgusted with her for letting herself be used as bait. It was all right for her to use her femaleness as an agent; the Section had to have female operatives. There have always been female spies, and the young and pretty ones have always used the same tools.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Il terrore dalla sesta luna

Origine: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 61)

“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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Robert A. Heinlein

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