H. Beam Piper Quotes

• Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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  Prayer   Waiting   Apathy  

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

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• English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

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  Men   Arms   Barmaids  

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• And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

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  Crazy   Mean   Statements  

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Space Viking: Science Fiction Stories”, p.46, 谷月社

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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.

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  Ideas   Sick   Looks  

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Four-Day Planet: Science Fiction Stories”, p.9, 谷月社

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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.

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  Two   Alcohol   Together  

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Little Fuzzy: Science Fiction Stories”, p.21, 谷月社

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• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

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  Dark   Night   Want  

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• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

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  Texas   Excess   Killing  

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

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• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

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  Disease   Sanity   Contagious  

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• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

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  Motivation   Lying   Men  

  H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

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  Powerful   Rich   Poor  

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.

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• English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

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  Warrior   Trying   Maids  

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• You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

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  Hands   Giving   Trying  

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books

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