Frasi di John C. Wright (44 frasi, pagina 2)

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“There is no magic, only mysteries explained, and mysteries unexplained.”

Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 106)

“I cannot describe myself except to say that I am either very vain or very beautiful, and that I hope I am the latter, while suspecting I may be the former.”

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John C. Wright libro Orphans of Chaos

Origine: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 1, “The Boundaries” Section 8 (p. 20)

“Women are supposed to domesticate men. List the countries where they treat women like dirt, and then list the crude, warlike, and brutal countries. Same list, yes?”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 8 (p. 162)

“Think, Amelia, think. You read all those books. What would Odysseus do? Dress up like a beggar, and then shoot everyone. No help there. What would Achilles do? Go sulk in his tent. Nope. Aeneas? Sacrifice a cow or something. Boy, these old heroes are really not useful as role models. Who were my other heroes? Margaret Thatcher? Attack Argentina. No time to go wobbly.”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 7 (p. 157)

“Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.”

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Origine: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 18, “Festive Days on the Slopes of Vesuvius” (p. 285)

“Everything is inanimate, if by that you mean things that operate according to cause and effect. Free will is an epiphenomenon, a misjudgment impressed upon us and sustained by the actions of brain molecules in motion.”

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Origine: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 16, “Remember Next Time Not to Look” (p. 252)

“Miss Daw said, half to herself, “Now you have had your first lesson in what it is like to be a real grown-up woman in a man’s world, my dear. We are judged by our looks, and men are not.””

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John C. Wright libro Orphans of Chaos

Origine: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 20, “Company, of a Sort” Section 4 (p. 269)

“Warlocks are something like doctors, I guess. No matter how much you like them personally, there is quite a bit of nasty mess involved in their line of work.”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 100)

“Death was soon and growing sooner.”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 20, “The Shield of Lady Wisdom” Section 6 (p. 280)

“Quentin looked glum and shook his head. “Unleashing the appetites is not freedom, but another type of slavery. Freedom in the absence of virtue will destroy a country as quickly as any tyranny.”
Victor said, “Virtue imposed from without is not virtue at all, but merely prudence. A man who avoids lying merely because a law tells him to tell the truth will avoid telling the truth as soon as the law tells him to lie.””

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 4, “The Creatures of Prometheus” Section 4 (p. 55)

“No harder than walking a tightrope over a pit. A deep pit. Filled with sharks. Radioactive sharks.”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 7 (p. 157)

“Comedy is easy. Intrigue is hard.”

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Origine: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 3, “Circuitous Acts” (p. 52)

“This world, this human earth, this dirty spot within heavenly sphere, is is overwhelmed by all the bloodshed and pollutions of men, their stinking lusts, their cities a-drip with oil, their battlefields with carrion.”

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Origine: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 109)

“They (i. e., the Olympian gods) operate on moral principles. You have to break a promise to them, or break a rule, for them to get power over you.”

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Victor commented darkly, “That explains why religions have rules no one can follow. If everyone is a sinner, by definition, everyone is under their power.”
Origine: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 9, “Wings” (p. 142)

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