Frasi di Gene Wolfe
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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

“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

“Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.”

Gene Wolfe libro The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”

Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

““I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.””

Origine: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”

Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”

Gene Wolfe libro The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah—the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!—reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?”

"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction

“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”

I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Origine: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

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