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John Brunner Quotes (1934-1995)
Author, Politician, Novelist
About John Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a science fiction author. His work in the new wave sub-genre is highly acclaimed and influential. His earlier (prolific, often pseudonymous) space operas are generally considered unremarkable.
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“A doctor is as good as the researchers backing him up.”
“We cannot allow quibbles to stand in the way of the truth.”
“—Among the other things lunatics make: their own version of truth.”
“Some people—mostly attractive women—don’t believe attractive women can act.”
“Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.”
“You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”
“COINCIDENCE You weren’t paying attention to the other half of what was going on.”
“The screen was a polychrome swirl, like a rainbow that had been through an electric blender.”
“You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.”
“Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?”
“Independence has limits. But dependence has, too. I want to set some for myself, that’s all.”
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John Brunner on Technology 3 quotes
“It's Supposed To Be Automatic But Actually You Have To Press This Button”
John Brunner on Insanity 2 quotes
“—Among the other things lunatics make: their own version of truth.”
John Brunner on Pessimism
John Brunner on Knowledge
John Brunner on New York City
John Brunner on Deity
John Brunner on Genius
John Brunner on Power
“Colin felt a shiver pass down his spine. What man, granted total power, could refrain from using it? And would not his first target inevitably be his fellow men?”
John Brunner on Television
“We're aware of the scale of the planet, so we don't accept that our own circumscribed horizons constitute reality. Much more real is what's relayed to us by the TV.”
John Brunner on History
John Brunner on Extremism
“If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.”
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Marge Piercy on John Brunner
“John Brunner, who writes one extraordinary book to ten into-one-end-of-the-typewriter-and-out-the-other, adventure by the yard commodities”
About John Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a science fiction author. His work in the new wave sub-genre is highly acclaimed and influential. His earlier (prolific, often pseudonymous) space operas are generally considered unremarkable.