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Alfred Bester Quotes

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The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.  (Alfred Bester Quotes) 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 Quotes) Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Damn you! Dagenham raged, don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? they don’t know enough for their own good. then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together  (Alfred Bester Quotes) One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Revenge is for dreams... Never for reality  (Alfred Bester Quotes) We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense  (Alfred Bester Quotes) I’m a great believer in people and their untapped potential  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Don’t ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts  (Alfred Bester Quotes) The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams... never for reality  (Alfred Bester Quotes) This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it  (Alfred Bester Quotes) 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 Quotes) The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal  (Alfred Bester Quotes) The mind is the reality. You are what you think  (Alfred Bester Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it  (Alfred Bester Quotes) He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival  (Alfred Bester Quotes) Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves  (Alfred Bester Quotes) If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you’re happy  (Alfred Bester Quotes) I’ve handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying  (Alfred Bester Quotes) If a man’s got talent and guts to buck society, he’s obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you’ve got left are the sheep  (Alfred Bester Quotes)