# Martians, Go Home

- Author: [Fredric Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/martians-go-home

## Quotes

> Still sitting there, still looking up in the tree.
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> At something that isn’t there? Luke wondered.
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> Or at something that isn’t there for me but is there for him, and which of us is right?
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> And he thinks that I don’t exist and I think I do, and which of us is right about that?
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> Well, I am, on that point if no other. I think, therefore I am.
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> But how do I know he’s there?
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> Why couldn’t he be a figment of my imagination?
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> Silly solipsism, the type of wondering just about everybody goes through sometime during adolescence, and then recovers from.
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> But it gives to wonder all over again when you and other people start seeing things differently or start seeing different things.

p. 324

> A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.

p. 277

> “Nuts,” said the Martian. “You people got rocks in your heads, that’s what accounts for your superstitions.”

p. 254