Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 27)

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“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Time for the Stars

Origine: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 2, “The Natural Logarithm of Two” (p. 24)

“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Citizen of the Galaxy

Origine: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)

“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Citizen of the Galaxy

Origine: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)

“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 25 (p. 260)

“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)

“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)

“But I do not willingly involve us in nationalistic wars; the side of the angels is seldom self-evident.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)

“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)

“Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 5 (p. 50)

“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)

“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 27 (p. 286)

“I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 257)

“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)

“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)

“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)

“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Origine: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)

“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)

“The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 125)

“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)

“I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “charming” by men is to listen while they talk.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Podkayne of Mars

Origine: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 6 (p. 60)