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Robert Lynn Asprin , scrittore statunitense.

✵ 28. Giugno 1946 – 22. Maggio 2008   •   Altri nomi Роберт Линн Асприн
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Robert Asprin: Frasi in inglese

“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”

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“In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head.
Marie Antoinette”

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“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death”

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Robert Lynn Asprin libro Myth Directions

Origine: Myth Directions

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto”

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Origine: Sweet Myth-Tery of Life

“You know,” Malcolm remarked to no one in particular, “I’d say that chap doesn’t enjoy time travel.”

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Origine: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 295)

“Fools have a way of discovering…that the laws of time travel, like the laws of physics, have no pity and no remorse.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 4 (p. 98; ellipses indicate a minor elision of description)

“Careless is stupid, he snarled at himself, and stupid can be fatal.”

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Origine: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 19 (p. 455)

“Playing God was a sweetly addictive game.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 431)

“The more chaotic the world, the greater the need for ritual.”

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 7 (p. 156)

““How much did that ridiculous maintenance job of yours pay?”
Skeeter blinked. “Five bucks an hour, why?”
“Five bucks? That’s not a salary, that’s slavery!””

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Origine: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 1 (p. 14)

“Small towns were terrible places to grow up with world-sized dreams—especially when those dreams were the only things you had left to hold onto.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 38)

“The death of the wildebeest herd didn’t change the bloody savagery she’d witnessed in the Roman Circus, but it put life and death in much clearer perspective. Nature wasn’t any nobler or gentler than human beings. It was just as deadly and just as cruel and just as savagely “unfair” to the weak…
Maybe more so.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 370; ellipsis in the original)

“The more I learn about history, the more savage I find it was.”

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 19 (p. 372)

“But—as Kit and Sven had been so fond of saying—the Universe didn’t give beans for “fair.” It simply was. You got it right or paid the price.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 364)

“When it comes to scouts, heroes are just people who confuse cowardice with common sense.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 7 (p. 119)

“So fare the fortunes of men, Skeeter thought bitterly, when seven wolves and a sheep decide what’s for lunch. Perfect democracy: everybody got to vote. Even the lunch.”

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Epilogue (p. 448)
Wagers of Sin (1996)

“Are you out of your mind? No, you have to be in possession of a mind, first, to be out of it.”

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Origine: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 4 (p. 85)

“What?” Jenna came out of her chair so fast, it crashed over. “Are you insane?”
“No,” Skeeter said mildly, “although I know a few people who might argue the point.”

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Origine: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 14 (p. 348)

“Education,” he smiled, “is never a waste of time.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 9 (p. 175)

“Skeeter just couldn’t figure out what was so horrible about taking a good, long, clear-eyed look at one’s past and facing whatever one found in it. Making up the past to fit whatever idea some politically correct group wanted to pass off as reality this week seemed a lot more dangerous to him than facing brutal facts.”

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 13 (pp. 268-269)

“It operates very much like the social structure of a nomadic tribe. Those in the brotherhood are fully human; those outside are not.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 74)

“Skeeter thought dark, vile thoughts at bureaus and the bureauc-rats that ran ’em.”

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

““Hi, Sven.”
“Hi, yourself. The answer’s no.””

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 7 (p. 111)

“Malcolm had forgotten how very young eighteen was, with its mixture of invincible assuredness, fragile emotions, and the desperate need to be taken seriously—even when caught in complete ignorance.”

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 286)

“Kit chuckled. “You, Bull Morgan, are a wicked judge of human character.”
“Hell, Kit, thought you’d figured it out by now: all human character is wicked. Just varies in degree is all.””

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 313)

“It is jihad, Mr. Morgan, a particularly virulent, fundamentalist form of hatred.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 75)

“No matter how you look at it,” Margo muttered, “when you get down to it, human beings aren’t really much better than killer plains apes, are they? Just a thin sugar-coating of civilization to make ’em look prettier.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 12 (p. 364)

““She’s young, Kit.”
“That’s no excuse. The universe doesn’t give a damn when it squashes you.””

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Origine: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 13 (p. 264)

“A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.”

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Origine: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 10 (p. 300)

“All the years he’d spent fooling himself into thinking that what he did was correct was simply time wasted from his life, on delusions and fantasies that kept him from seeing what he was and where he was inevitably headed with genuine clarity.”

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Origine: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 428)