Robert Silverberg citáty

Robert Silverberg je jedním z mnoha autorů zlaté americké generace science fiction, narodil se 15. ledna 1935 v Brooklynu v New Yorku, USA.

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“The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.”

Robert Silverberg kniha The Man in the Maze

Zdroj: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 12, section 4 (p. 179)

“It’s not a philosophy, Mr. Nichols. It’s an accommodation to the nature of reality.”

Robert Silverberg kniha The Stochastic Man

Zdroj: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 16 (p. 98)

“Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.”

Zdroj: Short fiction, Thomas the Proclaimer (1972), Chapter 6, “The Woman Who Is Sore at Heart Reproaches Thomas” (p. 91)

“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”

Robert Silverberg kniha A Time of Changes

Zdroj: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 8 (p. 25)

“I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.”

Zdroj: Short fiction, The Emperor and the Maula (2007), p. 463

““Come,” Deliamber said. “There is a vast journey ahead of us.”
“I know. That’s why I don’t want to get up.””

Robert Silverberg kniha Lord Valentine's Castle

Book 3 “The Book of the Isle of Sleep”, Chapter 2 (p. 231)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

“Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.”

Robert Silverberg kniha A Time of Changes

Zdroj: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 31 (p. 110)

“Love of others begins with love of self.”

Robert Silverberg kniha A Time of Changes

Zdroj: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 35 (p. 126)

“Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers.”

Robert Silverberg kniha The Stochastic Man

Zdroj: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 7 (p. 27)

“When you poison a man in order to sell him the antidote, you don’t boast about it afterward to the victim!”

In Star Science Fiction 5, edited by Frederik Pohl, p. 53
Short fiction, Company Store (1959)

“You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.”

Robert Silverberg kniha The Man in the Maze

Zdroj: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 6, section 8 (p. 89)

““You speak very generally,” Valentine said.
“I am an oracle, and oracles are never terribly specific,” she replied lightly.”

Robert Silverberg kniha Lord Valentine's Castle

Book 1, Chapter 12 (p. 93)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

““I know it stinks. The whole universe stinks, sometimes. Haven’t you discovered that yet?”
“It doesn’t have to stink!” Rawlins said sharply, his voice rising. “Is that the lesson you’ve learned in all those years? The universe doesn’t stink. Man stinks! And he does it by voluntary choice because he’d rather stink than smell sweet! We don’t have to lie. We don’t have to cheat. We could opt for honor and decency and—” Rawlins stopped abruptly. In a different tone he said, “I sound young as hell to you, don’t I, Charles?”
“You’re entitled to make mistakes,” Boardman said. “That’s what being young is for.”
“You genuinely believe and know that there’s a cosmic malevolence in the workings of the universe?”
Boardman touched the tips of his thick, short fingers together. “I wouldn’t put it that way. There’s no personal power of darkness running things, any more than there’s a personal power of good. The universe is a big impersonal machine. As it functions it tends to put stress on some of its minor parts, and those parts wear out, and the universe doesn’t give a damn about that, because it can generate replacements. There’s nothing immoral about wearing out parts, but you have to admit that from the point of view of the part under stress it’s a stinking deal.””

Robert Silverberg kniha The Man in the Maze

Zdroj: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 72)

“All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.”

Robert Silverberg kniha A Time of Changes

Zdroj: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 31 (p. 110)

“All my life,” said Schweiz, “has been a quest for plausible reasons to believe in what I know to be irrational.”

Robert Silverberg kniha A Time of Changes

Zdroj: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 53 (p. 168)

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