Quotes by Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester

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.

Damn You

People

Together

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

Eight

Three

Two

Faith in faith’ he answered himself. ‘It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in. It’s only necessary to believe that somewhere there’s something worthy of belief

Belief

Believe

Worthy

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

Dwelling Place

Names

Stars

I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great.

Challenges

Dies

I’m a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

Believer

People

Untapped Potential

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.

Mean

People

Technology

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.

Average

Men

Sheep

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Ability

Intellect

Obvious

It’s been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature’s loss is science fiction’s gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril’s collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

Loss

Reality

Writing

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Ability

Average

Belief

Believe

Believer

Betrayal

Challenges

Damn You

Defense

Dies

Dwelling Place

Eight

Enjoy

Extravagance

Fiction

Fool

Freak

Free Will

Giving

Heart

Intellect

Lemmings

Life Is

Loss

Matter

Mean

Men

Names

Nonsense

Obvious

People

Pigs

Priorities

Reactions

Reality

Refusal

Robots

Sheep

Silly

Stars

Technology

Tests

Thinking

Three

Together

Two

Untapped Potential

Worthy

Writing

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Quotes by Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester

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.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

Faith in faith’ he answered himself. ‘It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in. It’s only necessary to believe that somewhere there’s something worthy of belief

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great.

I’m a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

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.

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.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

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