Роберт Шекли: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)
Роберт Шекли было американский писатель-фантаст. Цитаты на английском языке.“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”
“Make it ten,” Foote said, “and I’ll enjoy it even more.”
Chapter 37 (pp. 151-152)
Victim Prime (1987)
“Nobody says any longer, When will the killing stop?”
Now we know that the killing will stop only when life itself stops.
Prologue (p. 8)
Victim Prime (1987)
“Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril.”
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 150)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“The disease may not be too difficult to live with. I thought you said it was terminal?”
“So I did. But then, everything is terminal, even health, even life itself. The only question is how long, and in what manner.”
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 142)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“I know they can’t help being young, but isn’t there something they can do about being so stupid?”
“I reckon not, Mr. Washburn,” Curly says.
The Never-Ending Western Movie (p. 119)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“It is just my good luck,” Detringer said, “that logic happens to be on the side of helping me.”
A Supplicant in Space (p. 64)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“Paradox is the inevitable forerunner of chaos.”
The Impacted Man (p. 49)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)
Источник: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 6 (p. 28)
Protection (p. 101)
Short fiction, Pilgrimage to Earth (1957)
“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Источник: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
“Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun.”
Источник: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 39)
The Tales of Zanthias (published in Weird Tales (July-August, 2003); reprinted in David G. Hartwell (ed.), Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (pp. 400-401))
Short fiction