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Algis Budrys byl americký redaktor, kritik a spisovatel science fiction litevského původu.

✵ 9. leden 1931 – 9. červen 2008
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“The way the world worked, once the word was out, the effect would take on exhaustibility. There was always not merely the event itself, but opinion of the event, and rebuttal of the opinion, and the ready charge of self-interest, and the countercharge. There was the analysis of the event, and the excavation of the root causes of the event, and the placement of the event in the correct historical context. Everyone would want to kick the can, and it would clatter over the cobblestones interminably, far from the toes of those who’d first impelled it.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 153)

“It’s good for us; hot breath on your heels is what keeps you on your toes.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 9 (p. 120)

“The world is full of confusing coincidences.”

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“And a man’s mind insists on making patterns from random data.”
Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 102)

“You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 98)

“It was understood on occasions of this sort that crew technicians are too busy to stay, since it had long ago been discovered that even one cameraman at a buffet was worth a horde of locusts, and tended to make awkward small talk.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 87)

“I wonder if time-traveling cultures are playing with us. I wonder if they process our history for entertainment values.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 6 (pp. 62-63)

“Time was when men of Horse Watson’s profession typically never slept sober, and died with their livers eroded. It must have been fun to watch the literate swashbucklers make fools of themselves in the frontier saloons, indulging in horsewhippings and shoot-outs with rival journalists and their partisans. But who stopped to think what it was to have the power of words and publication, to discover that an entire town and territory would judge, condemn, act, reprieve and glorify because of something you had slugged together the night before? Because of something you had handset into type, smudging your fingertips with metal poisons that inexorably began their journey through your bloodstream? For the sake of the power, you turned your liver and kidneys into spongy, irascible masses; you tainted the tissue of your brain with heavy metal ions until it became a house haunted by stumbling visions. Alcohol would temporarily overcome the effect. So you became an alcoholic, and purchased sanity one day at a time, and made a spectacle of yourself. It was neither funny nor tragic in the end—it was simply a fact of life that operated more slowly on the mediocre, because the mediocre could turn themselves off and go to sleep whether they had done the night’s job to their own satisfaction or not.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 3 (pp. 36-37)

“The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.”

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Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 13)

“I do what seems best—I live, I let live; so far I’ve done well. I don’t see why I should act like a predator, simply because I’m in a predatory society. I’m a human being, I’m myself—if I make my life something vicious, who’ll give me another if, too late, I regret what I’ve done?”

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The Eye and the Lightning, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction, December 1958, p. 18
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“People want to be safe, and comfortable. If safety and comfort is to be found in guns, then they will take up guns—of their own accord, in their own need. And when safety and comfort are found in libraries, then the guns rust.”

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Zdroj: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 6 (p. 122)

“You’re sincere enough.”

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She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!”
Zdroj: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 6 (p. 101)

“Well, I suppose we have to have young intellectuals, if we’re ever to survive to be middle-aged philosophers.”

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Zdroj: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 5 (p. 84)

“There’s a certain step-by-step logic, inherent in human nature and the peculiarities of human psychology, which ensures that Man will always organize into the largest possible group. Civilization is inevitable, if you want a pat phrase.”

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Zdroj: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 5 (p. 82)

“Tomorrow would be better. Tomorrow was always better, for someone. The difficult task lay in ensuring that the someone was one of yours.”

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Zdroj: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 3 (p. 51)