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Gene Wolfe quotes: Time turns our lies into truth Time turns our lies into truth
Gene Wolfe quotes: It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher. It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher.
Gene Wolfe quotes: The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law. The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law.
Gene Wolfe quotes: In some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself. In some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand. Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things. Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.
Gene Wolfe quotes: It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire. It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
Gene Wolfe quotes: When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene Wolfe quotes: All beds became deathbeds at last. All beds became deathbeds at last.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination. Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again! Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!
Gene Wolfe quotes: Something like that." "You Something like that." "You
Gene Wolfe quotes: Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I
Gene Wolfe quotes: Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind. I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.
Gene Wolfe quotes: What a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale. What a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine. I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
Gene Wolfe quotes: All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it. All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
Gene Wolfe quotes: People don't want other people to be people. People don't want other people to be people.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'. Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.
Gene Wolfe quotes: And yet I loved her still, or would have loved her if I could. And yet I loved her still, or would have loved her if I could.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.
Gene Wolfe quotes: In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed. In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I was young, so that I desired high things only. I was young, so that I desired high things only.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; Of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music;
Gene Wolfe quotes: There was a time when she did not remember my name or that we were married, but she still remembered that she loved me. There was a time when she did not remember my name or that we were married, but she still remembered that she loved me.
Gene Wolfe quotes: If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone. If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.
Gene Wolfe quotes: He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world. He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
Gene Wolfe quotes: All those who teach are hated. All those who teach are hated.
Gene Wolfe quotes: He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves. He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves.
Gene Wolfe quotes: It is beyond value, which means it is worthless. It is beyond value, which means it is worthless.
Gene Wolfe quotes: The chief thing is to begin, after all - after which the chief thing is to finish. The chief thing is to begin, after all - after which the chief thing is to finish.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
Gene Wolfe quotes: You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror. You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.
Gene Wolfe quotes: That's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you. That's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.
Gene Wolfe quotes: You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death. You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
Gene Wolfe quotes: There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die. There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy
Gene Wolfe quotes: He is the oldest of our sons, and although I loved him, I did not like him. He is the oldest of our sons, and although I loved him, I did not like him.
Gene Wolfe quotes: You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt. You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe quotes: As I drew breath, I heard bone snap - a horrible sound, but a joyful one because the bone was not mine. As I drew breath, I heard bone snap - a horrible sound, but a joyful one because the bone was not mine.
Gene Wolfe quotes: He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library. He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.
Gene Wolfe quotes: There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
Gene Wolfe quotes: You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe quotes: That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
Gene Wolfe quotes: My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess. My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight.
Gene Wolfe quotes: It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind. It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata. I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Catch Catodon ... cast out his conation. Catch Catodon ... cast out his conation.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers. Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
Gene Wolfe quotes: What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I have seldom found a lot to love about my fellow human beings, even when I liked them; I have seldom found a lot to love about my fellow human beings, even when I liked them;
Gene Wolfe quotes: Powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. Powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
Gene Wolfe quotes: If you know anything of science, madame, you must know that water is but ice given energy. If you know anything of science, madame, you must know that water is but ice given energy.
Gene Wolfe quotes: One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.
Gene Wolfe quotes: There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
Gene Wolfe quotes: his body close to the ground, he turned and his body close to the ground, he turned and
Gene Wolfe quotes: We call for night to hide our acts, But Night, a god, gives God the facts. We call for night to hide our acts, But Night, a god, gives God the facts.
Gene Wolfe quotes: There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Time turns our lies into truths. Time turns our lies into truths.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them. Myt-ser I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them. Myt-ser
Gene Wolfe quotes: We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons. We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them. Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them.
Gene Wolfe quotes: We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
Gene Wolfe quotes: The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive. The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.
Gene Wolfe quotes: My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
Gene Wolfe quotes: One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply. One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I am filthy. So is Doris, but we'll bathe and change clothes and be clean. Your filth is within you. If it were gone, you'd collapse. I am filthy. So is Doris, but we'll bathe and change clothes and be clean. Your filth is within you. If it were gone, you'd collapse.
Gene Wolfe quotes: Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.
Gene Wolfe quotes: God is the nest we build together. God is the nest we build together.
Gene Wolfe quotes: I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
Gene Wolfe quotes: Every woman is her true age when she sleeps. Every woman is her true age when she sleeps.

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