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Fredric Brown fue un escritor de ciencia ficción y misterio, más conocido por sus cuentos caracterizados por grandes dosis de humor y finales sorprendentes. Es también conocido por ser uno de los escritores más audaces a la hora de hacer experimentaciones narrativas en ficción de género. Aunque no fue un escritor especialmente popular en vida, la obra de Brown ha generado un considerable culto que continúa medio siglo después de que realizara su último escrito. Sus obras se reimprimen periódicamente y tiene varias páginas de fanes en Internet tanto en EE. UU. como en Europa, en donde se han hecho varias adaptaciones de sus escritos. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. octubre 1906 – 11. marzo 1972
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Fredric Brown: Frases en inglés

“In twenty to thirty thousand years memories become legends and legends become superstitions and even the superstitions become lost. Metals rust and corrode back into earth while the wind, the rain and the jungle erode and cover stone. The contours of the very continents change—and glaciers come and go, and a city of twenty thousand years before is under miles of earth or miles of water.”

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Fredric Brown libro Letter to a Phoenix

Letter to a Phoenix (p. 337)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Mind Thing

Fuente: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 20 (p. 570)

“Strangely, he wasn’t scared at all. He was even more coldly calm, calmly analytical. And he knew that he would have to be if he was to stand a chance to win this war. If he was to win it, his mind would have to be his major weapon; firearms might win a battle, but never the war.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Mind Thing

Fuente: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 18 (p. 555)

“The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Mind Thing

Fuente: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 15 (p. 534)

“Are you interested in science?”

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Fredric Brown libro The Mind Thing

“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”
Fuente: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 13 (p. 520)

“I want men who, like you, would not take orders even if I should give them. I do not want to be a god, Crag, even though I have some powers beyond mankind’s; I would not let my new world be colonized by people who might even be tempted to obey me.”

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Fredric Brown libro Rogue in Space

Fuente: Rogue in Space (1957), Chapter 7 (p. 406)

“It was not the fashion for politicians who aspired to elective office to live ostentatiously, no matter how much money they had. If they loved luxury—and most of them did—they indulged that love in ways less publicly obvious than by living in mansions. The public believes what it thinks it sees.”

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Fredric Brown libro Rogue in Space

Fuente: Rogue in Space (1957), Chapter 3 (p. 364)

“Escape, God how we all need escape from this tiny here. The need for it has motivated just about everything man has ever done in any direction other than that of the satisfaction of his physical appetites; it has led him along weird and wonderful pathways; it has led him into art and religion, ascetism and astrology, dancing and drinking, poetry and insanity. All of these have been escapes because he has known only recently the true direction of escape—outward, into infinity and eternity, away from this little flat if rounded surface we’re born on and die on. This mote in the solar system, this atom in the galaxy.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 5 “2001” (pp. 243-244; "ascetism" should be "asceticism")

“I wish that I could believe not in mortality but in reincarnation or individual immortality; I wish that I could be living again in another body or, God help me, even watching from the edge of a fleecy cloud in Heaven or out through the dirty windowpane of a haunted house or through the dull eyes of a dung beetle or on any terms. On any terms I want to be watching, I want to be there, I want to be around, when we reach the stars, when we take over the universe and the universes, when we become the God in whom I do not believe as yet because I do not believe he exists as yet nor will exist until we become Him.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 4 “2000” (p. 242)

“I sought her in the grayness and she wasn’t there, she was dead and she wasn’t there, she wouldn’t be there ever again and I could never find comfort in her again. Ellen, beloved, you are dead and your voice is in my mind and only in my mind.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)

“Bad, I thought, looking around me, that I’d accumulated so much. A man should never own more stuff than he can carry in his hands at a dead run. It was bad, but it had happened.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 230)

“A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 214)

“It’s indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhappiness in the old.”

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Fredric Brown libro The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Fuente: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 1, “1997” (p. 147)

“He could see now what a lot of his mistakes had been—laziness among them. And laziness is curable.”

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Fredric Brown libro What Mad Universe

Fuente: What Mad Universe (1949), Chapter 9 “The Dope on Dopelle” (p. 80)

“Well, let’s call his age as pushing sixty and not mention from which direction he was pushing it.”

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The Ring of Hans Carvel (p. 637)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.”

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Fredric Brown libro Martians, Go Home

Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 277)
Martians, Go Home (1955)

“He knew that soon, perhaps even today, something important was going to happen. Whether good or bad he did not know, but he darkly suspected. And with reason: there are few good things that may unexpectedly happen to a man, things, that is, of lasting importance. Disaster can strike from innumerable directions, in amazingly diverse ways.”

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Come and Go Mad (p. 291)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“Most intelligent people of the eighties had developed a type of radio deafness which enabled them not to hear a human voice coming from a loud-speaker, although they could hear and enjoy the then infrequent intervals of music between announcements. In an age when advertising competition was so keen that there was scarcely a bare wall or an unbillboarded lot within miles of a population center, discriminating people could retain normal outlooks on life only by carefully cultivated partial blindness and partial deafness which enabled them to ignore the bulk of that concerted assault upon their senses.”

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Pi in the Sky (p. 242)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“Yes, it was swell to sleep when you were looking forward to something. Time flies by and you don’t even hear the rustle of its wings.”

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The Angelic Angleworm (p. 70)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”

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Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“Please concentrate on how the system is governed.”

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Crag let his mind think about the two parties—both equally crooked and corrupt—that ran the planets between them, mostly by cynical horse trading methods that betrayed the common people on both sides. The Guilds and the Syndicates—popularly known as the Guilds and the Gildeds—one purporting to represent capital and the other purporting to represent labor, but actually betraying it at every opportunity. Both parties getting together to rig elections so they might win alternately and preserve an outward appearance of a balance of power and a democratic government. Justice, if any, obtainable only by bribery. Objectors or would-be reformers—and there weren’t many of either—eliminated by the hired thugs and assassins both parties used. Strict censorship of newspapers, radio and television, extending even to novels lest a writer attempt to slip in a phrase that might imply that the government under which he lived was less than perfect.
Fuente: Short fiction, Gateway to Glory (1950), pp. 610-611

“He had been cheated out of his compensation, on a technicality, by the corrupt officialdom of the spaceways. He’d turned criminal then, and had been as ruthless to society as it had been to him.”

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Fuente: Short fiction, Gateway to Glory (1950), p. 607