Fredric Brown quotes

Fredric Brown quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.”
-- Fredric Brown

Source : "The Lights in the Sky are Stars".

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“No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.”
-- Fredric Brown

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“When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.”
-- Fredric Brown

Source : Fredric Brown (2016). “The Fabulous Clipjoint”, p.96, Pickle Partners Publishing

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“There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.”
-- Fredric Brown

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“The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
-- Fredric Brown

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“There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.”
-- Fredric Brown

Source : "From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown".

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“War is the greatest failure of mankind.”
“But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.”
“Mankind is unamendable.”
“The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.”
“We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.”
“There is only one hope for mankind â€” and that is democratic Socialism.”

Source : Aneurin Bevan's Statement on his resignation in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. April 23, 1951.
“For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.”
“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”
“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”
“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”

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