Best Quotes by Alfred Bester (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
  3. 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.
  4. Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination
  5. There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." Why can't we all move forward together?" Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." Who leads?" The men who must...driven men, compelled men." Freak men." You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.
  6. If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
  7. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
  8. 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.
  9. I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.
  10. Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

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