„You're too young to let the world break you“

„Some of elements that lead us to the present may be traced through the career of one writer who came to prominence in the fifties; a career which accurately graphs the state of SF (and the world) during its transitional phase.“

„The world is speeding into the future at 120 calamities per hour.“

„As little respect as I have for the generality of your sex… <…> in a separate club entertain each other with the price and choice of lace and silk, and what dresses they liked or disapproved at the church or the playhouse. And when you are among yourselves, how naturally, after the first compliments, do you apply your hands to each others lappets, and ruffles, and mantuas; as if the whole business of your lives, and the publick concern of the world, depended upon the cut or colour of your dress.“

„Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine. And how will the new republic treat the inferior races? How will it deal with the black? how will it deal with the yellow man? how will it tackle that alleged termite in the civilized woodwork, the Jew? Certainly not as races at all. It will aim to establish, and it will at last, though probably only after a second century has passed, establish a world state with a common language and a common rule. All over the world its roads, its standards, its laws, and its apparatus of control will run. It will, I have said, make the multiplication of those who fall behind a certain standard of social efficiency unpleasant and difficult… The Jew will probably lose much of his particularism, intermarry with Gentiles, and cease to be a physically distinct element in human affairs in a century or so. But much of his moral tradition will, I hope, never die. … And for the rest, those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go. The whole tenor and meaning of the world, as I see it, is that they have to go. So far as they fail to develop sane, vigorous, and distinctive personalities for the great world of the future, it is their portion to die out and disappear. The world has a greater purpose than happiness; our lives are to serve God's purpose, and that purpose aims not at man as an end, but works through him to greater issues.

Источник: https://ru.citaty.net/community/translations/237159/“

„JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS THE BEST DANCING AND SINGING (AT THE SAME TIME) PERFORMER IN THE WORLD, AFTER MICHAEL JACKSON. HE'S THE NUMBER 1, INDEED.“

„JELLYFISHES ARE THE MOST HARMONIZED CREATURES IN THE WORLD. THAT WHAT MY DADDY WAS SAYING IN SUMMER 2006. OUR LAST SUMMER TOGETHER….“

„Altogether, it is a strange world that van Vogt wanders in. In that dark and murky world, medieval rulers ride rocket-ships; supermen count on their fingers; the leader of the Left is also the leader of the Right; and every hero packs a.32 caliber improbability in his hip pocket.“

„Люблю преданность сфинксов. По скандинавским легендам, по китайским, забавно, тоже – хульдры и лисы влюбляются только раз. И только в богов, но это такая любовь. No pressure in the world could break it, not even God himself. И они делают – не болтают, не чахнут, не страдают, но делают. И сфинксы бесстрашны, даже умирая от страха, они будут нырять за вами, умирая даже, они наслаждаются.“