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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

I believe there is no other d...

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

No intellect is needed to see...

No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

You're a materialist, like al...

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

You never learn how to write ...

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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

A hundred wise men have said ...

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Evolution teaches us the orig...

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 62 quotes

You do not characterize by te...

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

When a gift is deserved, it i...

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Some writers say they cannot ...

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Knowledge is soon changed, the...

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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Knowledge is soon changed, the...

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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

There's a certain kind of lone...

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 62 quotes

Men are said to desire women, ...

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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Have a short story feature two...

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

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

All time exists. That is the t...

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

A hundred wise men have said i...

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

God is the nest we build toget...

God is the nest we build together.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

Some writers say they cannot w...

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

Gene Wolfe 62 quotes

You seem to think that the onl...

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 62 quotes

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