C. J. Cherryh quotes
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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
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“A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.”
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“Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.”
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“The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.”
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“Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (1993). “Chanur's Legacy”, p.140, Penguin
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“I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.”
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“Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish....”
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“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”
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“Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (1992). “Chanur's Legacy: A Novel of Compact Space”, DAW Hardcover
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“Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (1992). “Chanur's Legacy: A Novel of Compact Space”, DAW Hardcover
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“Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.100, Penguin
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“For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (2005). “The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh”, Daw Books
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“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
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“Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : "Cyteen". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1988.
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“Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?”
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“Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.”
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“Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (2011). “Deceiver”, p.123, Penguin
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“Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.”
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“Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.”
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“Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.32, Penguin
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“If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.”
-- C. J. CherryhSource : "Chanur's Legacy". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1992.
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