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“Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out”
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R. A. Lafferty
#Learning Quotes
#Topography Quotes
#Consciousness Quotes
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“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.
#Loss Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.”
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R. A. Lafferty
#Mean Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Opposites Quotes
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“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names …Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
#Mean Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Opposites Quotes
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“Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men.”
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R. A. Lafferty
#Men Quotes
#Long Quotes
#People Quotes
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“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
#Writing Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Phrases Quotes
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“True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Arrive at Easterwine" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 6), 1971.
#Hate Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
#Vision Quotes
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“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.
#Excess Quotes
#Alive Quotes
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“When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 1), 1968.
#Dream Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#Boyhood Quotes
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“The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.
#Writing Quotes
#Yesterday Quotes
#Today Quotes
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“Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
#Rereading Quotes
#Stories Quotes
#Novel Quotes
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“When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Golden Gate and Other Stories". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1982.
#Attitude Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.
#Writing Quotes
#Stories Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : R. A. Lafferty, Damon Knight (1991). “Lafferty in Orbit”, p.79, Wildside Press LLC
#Science Quotes
#Anomalies Quotes
#Fit Quotes
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“The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”
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R. A. Lafferty
Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.
#Humor Quotes
#Law Quotes
#Gravity Quotes
