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

Alfred Bester

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This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Alfred Bester

Tag: 1956 prologue

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This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Alfred Bester

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If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

Alfred Bester

Tag: happiness fifteen fifty

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

Alfred Bester

Tag: eccentricity extravagance

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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

Tag: inspirational

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LABİRENTİ ORTADAN KALDIR.
KARMAŞIK YOLLARI YIK.
BİLMECEYİ SİL.
(x² o y³ uzay/d! zaman)
DAĞIT
(eylemler, ifadeler, etkenler, bölümler, güçler, örnekler, köktenciler, özdeşlikler, denklemler, diziler, çeşitlemeler, permütasyonlar, determinantlar ve çözümler)
YOK ET.
(elektron, proton, nötron, meson ve foton)
SİL.
(cayley, henson, lillienthal, chanute, langley, wright, turnbul ve s

Alfred Bester

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..eğer bir adamın topluma karşı gelecek yeteneği ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalamanın üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha değerli bir hale dönüştürürsünüz, kazandırırsınız. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmayı yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kalır.

Alfred Bester

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There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot.
"Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Alfred Bester

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I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

Alfred Bester

Tag: thinking choice self-actualisation

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