23 best quotes of the Strugatsky brothers
The most popular brothers in literature — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky — are not only just writers and science fiction writers and not even just favorites of millions. Their novels about the future, about the world and about man have become a part of life for many. The Strugatskys answer eternal questions — how to find yourself, not to get lost in this vast world and make the right choice.
We have collected the best Strugatsky quotes that will teach you to think more broadly.
1. Eighty-three percent of all days of the year start the same way: the alarm clock rings. ~ "Monday starts on Saturday"
2. For weeks you spend your soul on vulgar chatter with all sorts of trash, and when you meet a real person, there is no time to talk. ~ "It's hard to be a god"
3. That's right: a person needs money in order to never think about them. ~ "Roadside Picnic"
4. It's amazing how quickly the waves of delight pass. You can gnaw yourself, sting yourself, nag and itch for hours and days, and the delight comes and immediately goes away. ~ "Hotel "At the deceased climber"
5. But it can't be that there isn't a true one among a thousand roads! ~ "The desire for the strange"
6. If a person has to do meanness in the name of an ideal, then the price of this ideal is shit. ~ "Predatory things of the century"
7. The she-wolf says to her cubs: "Bite like me," and that's enough, and the hare teaches the bunnies: "Run away like me," and that's also enough, but the man teaches the cub: "Think like me," and that's a crime. ~ "Ugly Swans"
8. Why not be silent when everything is clear without words? ~ "Roadside Picnic"
9. It is better to make a mistake in a person twenty times than to treat everyone with suspicion. ~ "Interns"
10. What is the point of buying a car to drive around on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt. ~ "Monday starts on Saturday"
11. "Everyone is a genius at something. We just need to find this genius in him. ~ "Snail on the slope"
12. An amazing thing, by the way: no matter how you come, these bartenders are always wiping glasses, as if their salvation depends on it. ~ "Roadside Picnic"
13. Fantasy is a priceless thing, but you can't give it a way inside. Only outside, only outside. ~ "Predatory things of the century"
14. Skepticism and cynicism in life are cheap, because it is much easier and more boring than being surprised and enjoying life. ~ "Interns"
15. This is something like a democratic election: the majority is always for the bastard. ~ "Ugly Swans"
16. Among them, no one knew exactly what happiness was and what exactly the meaning of life was. And they accepted the working hypothesis that happiness is in the continuous knowledge of the unknown, and the meaning of life is the same. ~ "Monday starts on Saturday"
17. What is it — need? This is when you can't do without. It's when you think about all the time. This is when you strive all your life to. ~ "Snail on the slope"
18. What is the point of talking about the future? They don't talk about the future, they make it! ~ "Cloud"
19. Where greyness triumphs, black people always come to power. ~ "It's hard to be a god"
20. Not in the thunder of a cosmic catastrophe, not in the flames of an atomic war, or even in the grip of overpopulation, but in a well-fed, calm silence, the history of mankind ends. ~ "The Second invasion of the Martians"
21. It's not true that there are children and there are adults. Everything is actually more complicated. There are adults and there are adults. ~ "Interns"
22. There is nothing in the world that cannot be corrected. ~ "Roadside Picnic"
23. Damn it all, because I can't think of anything except these words of his: HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE, FOR NOTHING, AND LET NO ONE LEAVE OFFENDED! ~ "Roadside Picnic"
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