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Gene Wolfe Quotes

Gene Wolfe quotes

American Writer May 7, 1931

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It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different. Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise..."
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? Gene Wolfe
Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism."I nodded again."Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a torturer.' You may... Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external..."
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. Gene Wolfe
We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table. Gene Wolfe
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to..."
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. Gene Wolfe
Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay. Gene Wolfe
You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion. Gene Wolfe
A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School. Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to..."
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in..."
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
Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present. Gene Wolfe
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree. Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe quote: "My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't..."
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

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