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Gene Wolfe byl americký spisovatel, jeden z nejproslulejších autorů science fiction. Narodil se v New Yorku a vyrůstal v texaském Houstonu.

Jeho kniha The Sword of the Lictor získala v roce 1983 cenu Locus a cenu Augusta Derletha. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. květen 1931 – 14. duben 2019  •  Další jména جین وولف
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Gene Wolfe: Citáty anglicky

“You have need of learning, children, in order that the whorl will someday have need of you.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“Every theory is true in some discipline.
The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.”

Gene Wolfe kniha Starwater Strains

"In Glory like Their Star", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2001, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

““You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.”
“I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.””

Gene Wolfe

Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 3, "The Cabin" (p. 20)

“The best way to be thought honest is to be honest.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 1, Ch. 12
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.”

Gene Wolfe kniha The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" (1970), Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“She often spoke of marryin' a butcher or a sausage maker, having a liking for those trades, as she said, for they knew you couldn't never get all the stains from their aprons, and didn't demand it.”

Gene Wolfe

"Our Neighbor by David Copperfield", Future Tense (1978), ed. Lee Harding, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction

“PARADOX: A statement that reduces the matter at hand to complete obscurity while clarifying it. […] Paradoxes are sensitive and can be routed by sneering.”

Gene Wolfe

"Words Weird and Wonderful", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.”

Gene Wolfe kniha The Death of Dr. Island

"The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980). Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 2: In Green's Jungles (2000), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.”

Gene Wolfe kniha Starwater Strains

"Hunter Lake", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

“Every so often I get optimistic and explain the best method of learning to write for students. I don't believe any of them has ever tried it.”

Gene Wolfe

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun", p. 381
Nonfiction

“He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 4, Ch. 10
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

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