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“Pirates are perhaps the greatest invention of Earth people," Elizabeth interrupted loftily, "and their pirate stories are wonderful entertainment for small children. We have to give Earth people credit for that, they invented pirates.”

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The Reefs of Earth (1968)

“Tell me the truth, girl: how does the man next door ship out trailer-loads of material from a building ten times too small to hold the stuff?”

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"He cuts prices."
"In Our Block" (1965); later in Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)

“Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream.”

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R. A. Lafferty libro Past Master

The character of Thomas More on the future reception of his Utopia, in Ch. 2
Past Master (1968)

“Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.”

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Interview in Alien Critic (August 1973)

“The Dong button was just that, a big green button with the word Dong engraved on it. You pushed it, and it went dong. Well, that was almost too simple. Should there not be a deeper reason for it? And the small instruction plate over it didn’t add much. It read: “Wrong prong, bong gong.””

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Description of a Dong button, which is later revealed to reverse the flow of time for the wielder, if there has been a dire error made which needs correcting, Ch. 3
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Space Chantey (1968)

“As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”

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Atlas, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“This myth filter was necessary. The ship logs could not tell it rightly nor could any flatfooted prose. And the deeds were too bright to be viewed direct. They could only be sung by a bard gone blind from viewing suns that were suns.”

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Origine: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 1

“"Oh, I cannot abide these complacent clods," I exclaim. "I cannot relate to these opulent oafs who are laughing in the streets. They are not high enough or low enough. For my love I must find the poor, the deprived, the fornicators, the addicts, the drunkards, the unwashed,…"
"Oh, these are the poor," the clod told me. "This is the poorest street in town, Index Y-Z. It's hard to tell them apart now except that the poor spend more ostentatiously than the rich do."”

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Origine: Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6

“Be not nervous. In a very little while you will either be a member or you will not be.”

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Origine: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 7

“True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.”

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Origine: Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6

“‎Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —"”

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The Reefs of Earth (1968)

“It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.”

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The Reefs of Earth (1968)

“"A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead."
"Isn't that the usual fate of men, Harry?"”

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R. A. Lafferty libro Fourth Mansions

Origine: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 8

“Now then, I have given you a short fair hearing as the law requires. I do not solicit the support of your party, though, in all honesty, if it had more than one member I might.”

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R. A. Lafferty libro Past Master

Origine: Past Master (1968), Ch. 9

“When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.”

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Captain Roadstrum, about the planet Lotophage, Ch. 1
Space Chantey (1968)

“It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once.”

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Atlas, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

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Roadstrum to Puckett, on using crew members to test the lethality of the Siren-Zo, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.”

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A lieutenant of Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)

“Carr states that the characters of the Brunhilde are not true archetypes. Why, then they are false archetypes, and these also have their being. Kidd believes that X himself is in the process of becoming the Third Evil to fill the void left by the insufficiency of Papadiabolous and Seaworthy in the roles of devils. But Kidd is Joycean. To complicate matters, Lafferty swears that Finnegan is in no way Joycean, that he is nine hundred years earlier, out of the Yellow Book of Lecan (the Tain Bo Cuailinge), a character out of the Tain.”

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This presupposes that Finnegan is identical with Fion McCool as well as with the more derivative Fingal, and also with Cu Chulainn. Well, Finnegan is capable of being all. To those interested in this line I recommend Thurneysen’s Die Irische Helden- und Konigsage.
Interglossia
The Devil is Dead (1971)