Alfred Bester Quotes

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• One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

  Alfred Bester

  Space, Quality, Aphrodisiac

  Alfred Bester (1997). “Virtual unrealities: the short fiction of Alfred Bester”

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• Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

  Alfred Bester

  Grateful, Passion, Men

  Alfred Bester (1978). “Demolished Man”, Pocket

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• The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

  Alfred Bester

  Reality, Thinking, Mind

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

  Alfred Bester

  Stars, Dwelling Place, Names

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester, www.theguardian.com. 1956.

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• Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

  Alfred Bester

  Moving, Doubt, World

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.

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• Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

  Alfred Bester

  Nonsense, Entropy, Cents

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

  Alfred Bester

  Believe, Belief, Worthy

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• "There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

  Alfred Bester

  Moving, Men, Doubt

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.

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• I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

  Alfred Bester

  People, Untapped Potential, Believer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Adventure, Dying, Age

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

  Alfred Bester

  Silly, Fiction, Nonsense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

  Alfred Bester

  Lemmings, Freak, Life Is

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16, p. 251), 1957.

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• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  Alfred Bester

  Men, Giving, Priorities

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

  Alfred Bester

  Children, Mean, Order

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• The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

  Alfred Bester

  Extravagance, Fool, Enjoy

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Age, Freak, Century

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

  Alfred Bester

  Mean, Technology, People

  Alfred Bester (1976). “Star light, star bright”

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• We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

  Alfred Bester

  Sometimes, Natural

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

  Alfred Bester

  Writing, Loss, Reality

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• If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

  Alfred Bester

  Fifteen, Fifty, Wanted

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

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  Obvious, Ability, Intellect

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• Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Anger, Rage, Said

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

  Alfred Bester

  Heart, Thinking, Pigs

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• That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

  Alfred Bester

  Robots, Free Will, Reactions

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great.

  Alfred Bester

  Challenges, Dies

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