Gene Wolfe Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law.
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.
Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.
It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
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.
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.
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.
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.
Of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music;
There was a time when she did not remember my name or that we were married, but she still remembered that she loved me.
If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.
He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world.
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.
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt.
As I drew breath, I heard bone snap - a horrible sound, but a joyful one because the bone was not mine.
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.
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.
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.
I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
Powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them. Myt-ser
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
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.
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
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.