Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002)
R. A. Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. (R A Lafferty Quotes)
“And the people had begun to gather, tame people with a new wild look about them. Like wolves they were, and they snuffed and howled. Panlykonium reigned in Centrality Square, .and the air sparked with danger.”
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“He warned against time wasted in the bottomless quicksand of cliché, both of word and of thought.”
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“If the Colonel were not burdened with a mind, he would be able to think more clearly.”
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“Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.”
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“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band most challenged by the others is ‘high fantasy’, sometimes called ‘Sword and Sorcery’. There is a lot of stylized sneering at ‘S and S’.”
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“The art of story-telling has not been declining from the beginning. It has been declining for only about twelve thousand years. One reason for the decline is a dietary deficiency: the scarcity of Wooly Rhinoceros Meat and of Dire Wolf Meat. And the other reason is the disappearance of good places where good stories may be told.”
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“The first requisite of being an intellectual is that one be intelligent. It isn’t always observed.”
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“The ghost of some other fiction might say in truth to Science Fiction: “You’re not very good, are you?” But Science Fiction can answer “Maybe not, but I’m alive and you’re dead.”
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“The lad knew a trick for seeing things in their right size instead of in the illusion that they project.”
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“There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil was cast into hell; any other account you have heard is false.”
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“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders, the victims being mostly of one family. It lists the ways in which a man or an Empire may be surrounded and destroyed; and contains a veritable catalog of subversions and finely wrought treacheries which the reader may be able to make use of in his own life.”
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