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Time turns our lies into truth — Gene Wolfe

It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher. — Gene Wolfe

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law. — Gene Wolfe

In some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself. — Gene Wolfe

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

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

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

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. — Gene Wolfe

All beds became deathbeds at last. — Gene Wolfe

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

Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again! — Gene Wolfe

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Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I — Gene Wolfe

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

I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind. — Gene Wolfe

What a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale. — Gene Wolfe

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

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it. — Gene Wolfe

People don't want other people to be people. — Gene Wolfe

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

And yet I loved her still, or would have loved her if I could. — Gene Wolfe

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

In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed. — Gene Wolfe

I was young, so that I desired high things only. — Gene Wolfe

Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. — Gene Wolfe

Of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; — Gene Wolfe

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

If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone. — Gene Wolfe

He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world. — Gene Wolfe

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. — Gene Wolfe

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. — Gene Wolfe

All those who teach are hated. — Gene Wolfe

He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves. — Gene Wolfe

It is beyond value, which means it is worthless. — Gene Wolfe

The chief thing is to begin, after all - after which the chief thing is to finish. — Gene Wolfe

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? — Gene Wolfe

That's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you. — Gene Wolfe

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror. — Gene Wolfe

There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die. — Gene Wolfe

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

Every woman is her true age when she sleeps. — Gene Wolfe

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

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider — Kim Stanley Robinson

God is the nest we build together. — Gene Wolfe

He is the oldest of our sons, and although I loved him, I did not like him. — Gene Wolfe

You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt. — Gene Wolfe

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library. — Gene Wolfe

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. — Gene Wolfe

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. — Gene Wolfe

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

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

I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata. — Gene Wolfe

Catch Catodon ... cast out his conation. — Gene Wolfe

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers. — Gene Wolfe

We call for night to hide our acts, But Night, a god, gives God the facts. — Gene Wolfe

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. — Gene Wolfe

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. — Gene Wolfe

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight. — Gene Wolfe

As I drew breath, I heard bone snap - a horrible sound, but a joyful one because the bone was not mine. — Gene Wolfe

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. — Gene Wolfe

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy — Gene Wolfe

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

One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply. — Gene Wolfe

I have seldom found a lot to love about my fellow human beings, even when I liked them; — Gene Wolfe

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons. — Gene Wolfe

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

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. — Gene Wolfe

Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation. — Gene Wolfe

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. — Gene Wolfe

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

I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me — Gene Wolfe

If you know anything of science, madame, you must know that water is but ice given energy. — Gene Wolfe

One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. — Gene Wolfe

his body close to the ground, he turned and — Gene Wolfe

Time turns our lies into truths. — Gene Wolfe

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

The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive. — Gene Wolfe

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe

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