7 Quotes & Sayings By H Beam Piper

H. Beam Piper was a science fiction writer during the Golden Age of Science Fiction, a period of time characterized by a high degree of creativity and experimentation in the field. His work has been widely anthologized and has won numerous awards, including a Hugo Award for Best Short Story, a Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and a Retrospective Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, as well as being inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He is known for pioneering many literary techniques in science fiction.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face...
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It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. H. Beam Piper
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Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody? . H. Beam Piper
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Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around. H. Beam Piper
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I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. H. Beam Piper
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I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died. H. Beam Piper
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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around. H. Beam Piper