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He had been cheated out of his compensation, on a technicality, by the corrupt officialdom of the spaceways. He'd turned criminal then, and had been as ruthless to society as it had been to him.
Fredric Brown
In twenty to thirty thousand years memories become legends and legends become superstitions and even the superstitions become lost. Metals rust and corrode back into earth while the wind, the rain and the jungle erode and cover stone. The contours of the very continents change-and glaciers come and go, and a city of twenty thousand years before is under miles of earth or miles of water.
Fredric Brown
Her life, except for reading, had been dull-but it had not been in vain.
Fredric Brown
Strangely, he wasn't scared at all. He was even more coldly calm, calmly analytical. And he knew that he would have to be if he was to stand a chance to win this war. If he was to win it, his mind would have to be his major weapon; firearms might win a battle, but never the war.
Fredric Brown
The cat didn't answer, except possibly by not answering.
Fredric Brown
Are you interested in science?
Fredric Brown
I want men who, like you, would not take orders even if I should give them. I do not want to be a god, Crag, even though I have some powers beyond mankind's; I would not let my new world be colonized by people who might even be tempted to obey me.
Fredric Brown
It was not the fashion for politicians who aspired to elective office to live ostentatiously, no matter how much money they had. If they loved luxury-and most of them did-they indulged that love in ways less publicly obvious than by living in mansions. The public believes what it thinks it sees.
Fredric Brown
Escape, God how we all need escape from this tiny here. The need for it has motivated just about everything man has ever done in any direction other than that of the satisfaction of his physical appetites; it has led him along weird and wonderful pathways; it has led him into art and religion, ascetism and astrology, dancing and drinking, poetry and insanity. All of these have been escapes because he has known only recently the true direction of escape-outward, into infinity and eternity, away from this little flat if rounded surface we're born on and die on. This mote in the solar system, this atom in the galaxy.
Fredric Brown
I sought her in the grayness and she wasn't there, she was dead and she wasn't there, she wouldn't be there ever again and I could never find comfort in her again. Ellen, beloved, you are dead and your voice is in my mind and only in my mind.
Fredric Brown
Bad, I thought, looking around me, that I'd accumulated so much. A man should never own more stuff than he can carry in his hands at a dead run. It was bad, but it had happened.
Fredric Brown
A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don't mean as bartenders.
Fredric Brown
It's indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhappiness in the old.
Fredric Brown
He could see now what a lot of his mistakes had been-laziness among them. And laziness is curable.
Fredric Brown
Well, let's call his age as pushing sixty and not mention from which direction he was pushing it.
Fredric Brown
A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.
Fredric Brown
He knew that soon, perhaps even today, something important was going to happen. Whether good or bad he did not know, but he darkly suspected. And with reason: there are few good things that may unexpectedly happen to a man, things, that is, of lasting importance. Disaster can strike from innumerable directions, in amazingly diverse ways.
Fredric Brown
Most intelligent people of the eighties had developed a type of radio deafness which enabled them not to hear a human voice coming from a loud-speaker, although they could hear and enjoy the then infrequent intervals of music between announcements. In an age when advertising competition was so keen that there was scarcely a bare wall or an unbillboarded lot within miles of a population center, discriminating people could retain normal outlooks on life only by carefully cultivated partial blindness and partial deafness which enabled them to ignore the bulk of that concerted assault upon their senses.
Fredric Brown
The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.
Fredric Brown
... the moon riding the fleecy clouds like a golden galleon tossed upon silver-crested whitecaps in a stormy...
Fredric Brown
страшная история: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."
Fredric Brown