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Patrick O'Brian foi um escritor e tradutor inglês, mais conhecido pela sua série Aubrey-Maturin sobre a Marinha Real Britânica durante as guerras Napoleônicas e centrada na amizade entre o capitão Jack Aubrey e o médico, naturalista e espião Stephen Maturin. Os vinte livros da série são notáveis pelos detalhes de uma vida naval no século XIX e a sua fidelidade histórica.

Na década de 1950, O'Brian escreveu dois livros baseado em um jovem grupo, The Golden Ocean e The Unknown Shore baseado em eventos da circum-navegação de George Anson de 1740 a 1743. Embora tenha escrito muitos anos antes da série Aubrey-Maturin, os antecedentes literários de Aubrey e Maturin podem ser claramente observados no caráter dos personagens de Jack Byron e Tobias Barrow.

O'Brian publicou diversos livros e histórias sob o nome de Richard Patrick Russ, é notável, Caesar and Hussein: an Entertainment, publicada quando ele tinha 21 anos. Richard Patrick Russ mudou seu nome legalmente para Richard O'Brian em 1945, abandonando a sua reputação de escritor já construída sobre seu nome.

A notícia de que O'Brian nasceu na Irlanda foi revelada em 1998 quando jornalistas britânicos descobriram que ele, na verdade, nasceu em Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, que ele não seria católico, e que ele era filho de um descendente de alemão e uma mãe inglesa. A vida de O'Brian por Dean King, Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed, documenta a personalidade e a vida de um enigmático homem de letras.

O filme de Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World foi baseada nas aventuras da série Aubrey-Maturin, e teve uma base em todas as histórias da séries. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Dezembro 1914 – 2. Janeiro 2000
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Patrick O'Brian: Frases em inglês

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”

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Patrick O'Brian The Hundred Days

Fonte: The Hundred Days

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either, which is infamous, or, which is imbecile.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Master and Commander

Fonte: Master and Commander (1970)
Contexto: “But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Post Captain

Fonte: Post Captain

“Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”

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Patrick O'Brian

HMS Surprise (1973)
Fonte: H.M.S. Surprise

“I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Post Captain

Fonte: Post Captain

““This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.””

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Patrick O'Brian livro Post Captain

Fonte: Post Captain (1972)

“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro The Commodore

Fonte: The Commodore (1995)

“Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.”

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Patrick O'Brian

Fonte: H.M.S. Surprise

“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Master and Commander

"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)

“Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore (1959).

“… He is not very sharp in some ways; and in his simple view of the world, paederasts are dangerous only to powder-monkeys and choir boys, or to those epicene creatures that are to be found in Mediterranean brothels. I made circuitous attempt at enlightening him a little, but he looked very knowing and said, 'Don't tell me about rears and vices; I have been in the Navy all my life.'"
"Then surely he must be wanting a little in penetration?”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Master and Commander

"James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?"
Master and Commander (1970) ("rears and vices" is O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)

“My God, oh my God," he said. "Six hundred men.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Desolation Island

Desolation Island (1979)

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

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Patrick O'Brian livro Master and Commander

Master and Commander (1970)