Frases de Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester foi um jornalista e escritor norte-americano de ficção científica.

Em 1942, tornou roteirista de histórias em quadrinhos, chegando a substituir Lee Falk nas tiras O Fantasma e Mandrake, além de escrever histórias do Lanterna Verde para a DC Comics.

Foi o primeiro vencedor do Prémio Hugo, em 1953, pelo seu livro The Demolished Man, uma história sobre policiais telepatas, apontada como precursora do gênero cyberpunk. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Dezembro 1913 – 30. Setembro 1987
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Alfred Bester: Frases em inglês

“Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.”

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination

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

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Variante: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Fonte: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).

“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”

Alfred Bester livro The Demolished Man

Fonte: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 28).

“He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.”

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 1 (p. 19).

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

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).

“We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.”

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 6 (p. 98).

“Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.”

Alfred Bester livro The Stars My Destination

Fonte: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 194).

“Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.”

Alfred Bester livro The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

in Hartwell ed. The World Treasury of Science Fiction, p. 268 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1958)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)