Frasi di Michael Shea
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Michael Shea , scrittore statunitense.

✵ 3. Luglio 1946 – 16. Febbraio 2014

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Michael Shea: Frasi in inglese

“By his twentieth year he was a thorough adept in all of what we may term the “carnival arts,” and already a widely traveled young man. From mastery of the mountebank’s larcenous skills to the study of outright felonious appropriation, and all its subsidiary sciences, proved but a short step for Nifft, who always credited his early “dramatic training” with his success as a thief, vowing it had given him a rare grasp of his trade’s fundamentals: lying, imposture and nimble movement.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Prologue (pp. 6-7)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“And you could see at a glance that Defalk was a simple man who wanted no more than to be brilliantly rich, admired, and unencumbered with work. His face said it so plainly: “I’m an excellent fellow. Isn’t such a life no more than my proper portion?””

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 1, Chapter 3 (p. 31)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“Good soldiers stay alive by being unsentimental and having a quick eye for the main chance.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 2, “The Pearls of the Vampire Queen,” Chapter 8 (p. 105)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“The great in Evil, and the great in [Goodness|Good]]—both leave an immortal residue.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 12 (p. 181)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“Come on,” I said. “We have to try. The effort is utterly pointless, but inaction seems an even greater agony.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 18 (p. 221)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“This is not genuine scholarship! Real research is a coming-to-grips with phenomena. This, as a transcription of the ocean’s infinitely various text, is a fraud, an egregious counterfeit, which patly reduces the Primary Sea’s endlessness to a cozy finitude, such as it pleased this puny entity to regard it, for he must have had but a feeble stomach for enterprise of a dark or difficult kind.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 11 (p. 168)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“The boy was unquestionably a great natural talent, if not an outright genius, in the art of complaint—tirelessly inventive, and completely shameless in the matter of interpreting his dissatisfactions as someone else’s—anyone else’s—criminal failures to content him.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 18 (p. 215)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 17 (p. 208)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“He’s here, of course, strictly through his own ambitious carelessness.”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

“Prime flaws of youth, of course—but also its strengths, this carelessness and ambition.”
Part 3, Chapter 14 (p. 191)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“You realize of course, Barnar, that it is simply not possible that we’re actually doing this?”

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Michael Shea libro Nifft the Lean

“I’ve come to the same comforting conclusion, old friend. Therefore let’s away—an impossibility can only do us an unreal sort of harm, after all.”
Part 3, Chapter 8 (p. 139)
Nifft the Lean (1982)