Tim Powers quotes
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“The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.”
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“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”
-- Tim PowersSource : Tim Powers (2016). “The Ghosts of the Past: Three historical novels by Tim Powers”, p.186, Atlantic Books
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“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”
-- Tim PowersSource : Tim Powers (2011). “On Stranger Tides”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.”
-- Tim PowersSource : "Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.
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“I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.”
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“The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.”
-- Tim PowersSource : Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey
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“I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.”
-- Tim PowersSource : Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.297, Penguin
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“Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.”
-- Tim PowersSource : Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.406, Penguin
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