4 Quotes & Sayings By Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown (1910-1971) was a science fiction author, and winner of the first Hugo Award (awarded by the World Science Fiction Society) for Best Short Story in 1951. He wrote over twenty short stories and thirteen novels. His work has been translated into many languages.

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The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought. And only the phoenix lives forever. Fredric Brown
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Fortunately, I have forgotten most of the things that have happened to me. Fortunately, the mind has a limited capacity for remembering. It would be horrible if I remembered the details of a hundred and eighty thousand years–the details of four thousand lifetimes that I have lived since the first great atomic war. Fredric Brown
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THERE IS A LOVELY LITTLE horror story about the peasant who started through the haunted wood–the wood that was, people said, inhabited by devils who took any mortal who came their way. But the peasant thought, as he walked slowly along: I am a good man and have done no wrong. If devils can harm me, then there isn't any justice. A voice behind him said, “There isn't. Fredric Brown