Volume 2, Ch. 23
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
Gene Wolfe: 102 citátů0 lajků
Gene Wolfe: Citáty anglicky
“He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.”
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 43, "The Evening Tide" (p. 303)
““We can only hope.”
“That’s like the frog said when he seen the stork.””
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 46, "The Runaway (p. 328)
“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”
Gene Wolfe kniha Home Fires
Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction
“Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.”
Volume 1: Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“You’re called a holy man,” she said. “I see you’re wholly deranged.”
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 36, "The Citadel Again" (p. 255)
“Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.”
Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
Gene Wolfe kniha Storeys from the Old Hotel
"The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton", Universe 7 (1977), ed. Terry Carr, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“People who wish to be lost always get their way.”
Gene Wolfe kniha Innocents Aboard
"The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun", Grails, Quests, Visitations, and Other Occurrences (1992), ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Innocents Aboard (2004)
Fiction
Volume 3: Caldé of the Long Sun (1994), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Gene Wolfe kniha Storeys from the Old Hotel
"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction
“Be careful about extending credit, too, and doubly careful about refusing to extend it.”
Volume 1, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.”
"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order)", as quoted in Michael Swanwick, "The Wolf in the Labyrinth", Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007
Nonfiction
"Sun of Helioscope", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves.”
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 6, "A Death and the Dark" (p. 38)
To which Pas replied, "Yes, that's what I wanted you to do."
Volume 3: Return to the Whorl (2001), Ch. 6
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.”
Volume 4, Ch. 15
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.”
Volume 2: Lake of the Long Sun (1994), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 40, "The Brook Beyond Briah" (p. 285)
Volume 3, Ch. 13
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 13, "The Battles" (p. 95)
“It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.”
Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
Gene Wolfe kniha Starwater Strains
"Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?", Moon Shots (1999), ed. Peter Crowther, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 39, "The Claw of the Conciliator Again" (p. 278)
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
Volume 1, Ch. 11
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 33, "Aboard the Alcyone" (p. 237)
"The God and His Man", Asimov's Science Fiction, 1980, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Volume 4: Exodus from the Long Sun (1996), Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
