Альфред Бестер знаменитые цитаты
Bester was an urbane and successful Mad Av dandy, an anomaly among American SF writers of his day, and his best work is deliciously redolent of the brains and flash and bustle of postwar Manhattan.
Уильям Гибсон, 2011
Источник: William Gibson. "The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction" http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice. The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). May 14, 2011.
Вл. Гаков, «Энциклопедия фантастики. Кто есть кто», 1995
Источник: Бестер (Bester), Альфред // Энциклопедия фантастики. Кто есть кто / Под ред. Вл. Гакова. — Минск: Галаксиас, 1995.
He is one of the very few genre-sf writers to have bridged the chasm between the old and the New Wave, by becoming a legendary figure for both — perhaps because in his sf imagery he conjured up, with bravura, both outer and Inner Space.
Питер Николс, Энциклопедия научной фантастики, 1979
Источник: Bester, Alfred http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bester_alfred // SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, online edition, 2011—.
A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.
«Человек, который убил Магомета», 1958
Альфред Бестер: Цитаты на английском языке
“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”
Источник: The Stars My Destination
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 188).
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Вариант: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
“My pleasure, sir.”
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 251).
“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”
Источник: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 28).
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 1 (p. 19).
“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).
“We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.”
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 6 (p. 98).
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 247).
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
“Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.”
Источник: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 194).
in Hartwell ed. The World Treasury of Science Fiction, p. 268 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1958)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)