Frasi di Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe è stato uno scrittore statunitense di romanzi di fantascienza e fantasy.

Wolfe è noto sia per il suo stile di scrittura particolarmente denso e ricco di rimandi e allusioni, sia per l'influenza che ha avuto sulla sua opera la religione cattolica alla quale ha aderito dopo aver sposato una donna cattolica. Ha ricevuto durante la sua lunga carriera numerosi premi del settore, inclusi due premi Nebula. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Maggio 1931 – 14. Aprile 2019   •   Altri nomi جین وولف
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Gene Wolfe Frasi e Citazioni

Gene Wolfe: Frasi in inglese

“We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.”

Volume 2, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”

Gene Wolfe The Claw of the Conciliator

Origine: The Claw of the Conciliator

“The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.”

"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”

Gene Wolfe libro Starwater Strains

"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

“The true dawn of adulthood, of intellectual maturity, if you like, is the realization that adults are all fools.”

"The Pirates of Florida and Other Impossibilities", speech at the Conference on the Fantastic (1991), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.”

Volume 3, Ch. 4
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“It will come as no surprise to those of you in the book trade when I say that although books do not cause cancer, books in general do not sell as well as cigarettes.”

Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (43rd World Science Fiction Convention, August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction

“Yours is a race of pawns,” Tzadkiel told me. “You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.”

Origine: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 24, "The Captain" (p. 176)

“People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.”

Gene Wolfe The Wizard Knight

The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62
Fiction

“Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.”

Gene Wolfe libro Starwater Strains

"Empires of Foliage and Flower" (1987), first appeared as a limited edition chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”

Gene Wolfe libro Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

"The Adopted Father", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Fiction

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