Thirty three million three hundred eighty five
The most famous in literature, the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky — not just fiction, not just writers and not just the idols of millions. Their books about the future, about the world and man in it for many became a part of life, and for some faithful guides.
- Eighty-three percent of all days in the year begin the same way: the alarm clock rings. (Monday begins on Saturday)
- For weeks, spend a soul on dirty talk with every scum, and when you meet a real person to talk no time. (Hard to be a God)
- That's right: the money a person needs to never not to think about them. (Roadside picnic)
- It's amazing how fast are the waves of delight. Gnaw themselves, to hurt themselves, to compel and itch for hours a day, and the excitement comes and then goes. (The hotel "dead mountaineer")
- But it can not be that among the thousands of roads not found the right! (Strange desire)
- If the name of an ideal man has to do meanness, the price of this ideal — crap. (Predatory things of the century)
- Wolf tells her cubs: "Bite like me", and that is enough, and teaches zaychiha leverets: "get Away, I", and this is also quite, but the man-cub teaches: "Think like me" and it is a crime. (The ugly swans)
- Why not be silent when everything is clear without words? (Roadside picnic)
- Better twenty times be mistaken in the man, than treated with suspicion by everyone. (Trainees)
- And what sense to buy a car to drive on asphalt? Where asphalt, nothing interesting, and where interesting, there is no asphalt. (Monday begins on Saturday)
- Everyone in something so genius. You just need to find it is brilliant. (The snail on the slope)
- It's amazing, by the way, that no matter how you come — the bartenders are always wiping glasses, as though their salvation depended on the soul. (Roadside picnic)
- Imagination is a priceless thing, but it is impossible to give her a way in. Only on the outside, only outside. (Predatory things of the century)
- Skepticism and cynicism in life is cheap because it is a lot easier and more boring than to be surprised and enjoy life. (Trainees)
- It is something like democratic elections: the majority is always a bastard. (The ugly swans)
- Among them, no one knew exactly what happiness is and what the meaning of life. And they took a working hypothesis that happiness is a continuous knowledge of the unknown, and the meaning of life is. (Monday begins on Saturday)
- What it is necessary? When it is impossible to do without. This is when all the time I think Oh, It's when their whole lives trying K. (the Snail on the slope)
- What's the point talking about the future? Not talking about the future, do it. (Cloud)
- Where is triumphant mediocrity, to power always come black. (Hard to be a God)
- Not in the thunder of a cosmic catastrophe, not in the flames of nuclear war and not even in the grip of overpopulation, and well-fed, calm silence ends the history of mankind. (The second invasion of the Martians)
- It's not true that there are children and there are adults. All, in fact, more complicated. There are adults and there are adults. (Trainees)
- There is nothing in the world that could not be corrected. (Roadside picnic)
- Goddamn it, I can't think of anything, except those words of his: HAPPINESS FOR ALL in VAIN, AND LET will LEAVE NOBODY OFFENDED!