Frases de Robert Sheckley (114 citas, página 4)

Carmody asked.
“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”

Chapter 21 (p. 136)
Dimension of Miracles (1968)

“It might have meant something, or it might not have. That was the thing about uncertainty, you were never sure.”

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Robert Sheckley libro Hunter/Victim

Fuente: Hunter/Victim (1988), Chapter 18 (p. 100)

“It was the sort of atmosphere of good humor which so often accompanies a total absence of good taste.”

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Robert Sheckley libro Victim Prime

Fuente: Victim Prime (1987), Chapter 48 (pp. 187-188)

“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”

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Robert Sheckley libro Victim Prime

“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?”

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Robert Sheckley libro Victim Prime

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.”

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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?”

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“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?”

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“I reckon not, Mr. Washburn,” Curly says.

The Never-Ending Western Movie (p. 119)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“What is the purpose of being really intelligent if not to have the substance of what you want without mistaking it for the shadow?”

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Robert Sheckley libro Welcome to the Standard Nightmare

Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“You argue too damned well!”

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“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.”

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The Impacted Man (p. 49)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)

“Not even the thought of death can upset the man who is going into space for the first time. The journey into the unknown transcends the framework of anxiety, at least for a while.”

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Robert Sheckley libro The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton

Fuente: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 6 (p. 28)

“We denizens of Earth have a common vice: We take what we’re offered, whether we need it or not.
You can get into a lot of trouble that way.”

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Robert Sheckley libro Pilgrimage to Earth

Protection (p. 101)
Short fiction, Pilgrimage to Earth (1957)

“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”

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Robert Sheckley libro Mindswap

Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Fuente: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)

“Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun.”

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Robert Sheckley libro The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton

Fuente: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 39)

“I’ve heard that some of the larger spiders hunt songbirds. I have no objection to that. The spiders belong here, too. Let nature do what it needs to do. We who are people know more than to guide ourselves by nature’s practices.”

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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