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Sheri Stewart Tepper è una scrittrice statunitense, prolifica autrice di fantascienza, fantasy, horror e gialli.

✵ 16. Luglio 1929 – 22. Ottobre 2016   •   Altri nomi Sheri Tepper
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“Il mondo fantastico nel quale mi immergo leggendo un libro per me è reale esattamente come il mondo in cui vivo… se non addirittura più reale.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. II

“Mi piace molto scrivere gialli, perché è più divertente che faticare su un romanzo di fantascienza di grosso impegno. Quando sto lavorando a un libro di fantascienza, che mi richiede in genere un anno o anche più, be', durante quel periodo riesco sempre a infilarci almeno un paio di gialli. Sono un piacevole diversivo.”

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p. IV

“Il motivo per cui preferisco la fantascienza o la narrativa speculativa è perché riesce a gettare nuova luce sulla condizione umana. […] Proiettare la nostra condizione cento o cinquecento anni nel futuro, introducendo qualche elemento strano ed esotico, significa gettarvi sopra un fascio di luce, cosicché è possibile osservarla più chiaramente di quanto di possa fare oggi, descrivendola in maniera altrimenti impossibile, pur rimanendo vicini alla realtà del mondo odierno.”

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p. V

“Una delle cose che più amo della letteratura speculativa è il fatto che sia aperta a nuove possibilità, cioè non si limita semplicemente ad accettare dei dati di fatto. Nei normali romanzi […] nulla cambia. Alla fine c'è una sorta di catarsi e anche di indulgenza. Ma non è sufficiente, perché dovremmo invece essere in grado di cambiare il nostro modo di essere, cioè riuscire ad andare al di là di questo genere di cose.”

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p. V

“Sono sempre stata contraria fin da giovanissima al fatto che le differenze tra le varie religioni vengano usate per soggiogare la gente. Gran parte delle coercizioni a scapito delle donne o di altre razze vengono esercitate con l'autorità che deriva da un potere religioso, e nei miei libri parlo proprio di questo. Usiamo linguaggi e modi di pensare diversi, usiamo la religione, il nazionalismo, la storia, per trovare motivi di divisione fra noi, diventando a nostro modo dei terroristi, contro i nostri figli, contro gli amici o i vicini. Credo sia un vero peccato.”

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pp. V-VI

“A tredici anni, avevo già letto la Bibbia da cima a fondo cinque o sei volte. Era come leggere fantasy, perché lì veniva descritto un altro mondo e un altro sistema di pensiero che mi era del tutto estraneo.”

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p. VI

“Non sono atea e non sarei affatto sorpresa di scoprire che vi sia stata una Causa Prima o un'intelligenza guida nell'universo, ma se anche così fosse, è fondamentalmente inconoscibile. Nessun visionario sulla Terra è in grado di fornirmi una descrizione accurata di questa entità o spiegarmi che cosa vuole che io faccia, perché se mi trovo qui per uno scopo, be', vorrei scoprirlo personalmente. Tutti i miei libri parlano di questo tema fondamentale, cioè parlano di religione, di gente che cerca la propria strada.”

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p. VI

Sheri S. Tepper: Frasi in inglese

“I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 358)

“Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 15 (p. 338)

“Keepe pursed his lips, nodded. “We’re already in a very strong position in this country, of course. We’ve taken over all of the antigovernment militias, most of the religious groups who think of themselves as conservative, plus what’s left of the KKK and the American Nazi party, but they’re only pocket change. We now own the Republican party. Any moderates still hiding in there have been flushed out. We’ve been managing the press for over twenty years now, and the public is accustomed to our view of the world.”
Jagger paid attention. “I didn’t realize…”
“Oh, yes. People don’t want to absorb new information. They like predictability. So as long as we don’t surprise the public with the truth, we’re free to move as we like. Very shortly we won’t even have to be covert about it. And then, of course, people are sick of issues. Civil rights, human rights, women’s rights—people are tired of all that. You understand?””

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 2 (p. 52; spoken by one of the leaders of a secretive neo-fascist organization)

“Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes war and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about wisdom! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 11 (p. 194)

“On that far horizon the Sandia Mountains stand behind their outliers in receding gradations of gray or blue or violet, paper cutouts against the lighter sky, vanishing into night when the lights of the city come on. Then the stars look down and the air is sweet with piñon smoke as centuries-old nut-bearing trees are burned for the momentary pleasure of those who, unlike the native peoples, never think of the food the trees produce.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 2 (p. 41)

“Picture this:
A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.”

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Origine: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 1 : caigo faience, first lines (p. 1)

“The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.”

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The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor (p. 464)
The Visitor (2002)

“Eugenie thought of this often. Men had told her many sweet things about herself, but never before that she was important. It was the nicest compliment she had ever received.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 7 (p. 120)

“Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Origine: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

“One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 5 (p. 96)

“Too good is good for nothing.”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 355)

““Words? Not really. Mankind is a good word.” She set down her glass with a thump. “Or humankind. I’m afraid we’ve spent a lot of feminist energy on meaningless symbols rather than essential functions.””

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 170)

“Marjorie thought: It always comes down to something like this, doesn’t it. No matter what our consciences say, no matter how much doctrine we’ve been taught, no matter how many ethical considerations we’ve chewed and swallowed and tried to digest, it always comes down to us arming ourselves with weapons as deadly as we can manage and going out into combat…”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 377)

“They haven’t learned that being penitent sometimes does no good at all.”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 374)

“They’ve got a kind of committee there,” he had said, “an office. Acceptable Doctrine, it’s called. Everyone on the committee is mostly concerned about what people believe. They’re running things, too; don’t let them tell you they aren’t. Truth doesn’t enter in. If they’ve decided something is doctrine, they’ll ignore all evidence to the contrary and lie to your face. You don’t want to run afoul of those types, do you? Not if you have questions to ask. No.”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 10 (p. 191)

“Useless as a third leg on a goose.”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 345)

“She needed more sleep and less aggravation.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 6 (p. 114)

“We believe that nothing worthy of our worship would want our worship.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 18 (p. 401)

“The boys attend the Institute. I saw where they keep the girls. They are not taught anything. They are merely fed, bathed, given exercise, raised so until puberty, at which time they are culled. The enemy does not want either rebellion or thought bred into his followers, so any who show signs of independence or unusual intelligence are culled.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 19 (p. 421)

““I don’t have much confidence,” she said. “A lot of what I’ve been taught isn’t making sense.”
“That’s the nature of teaching. Something happens, and intelligence first apprehends it, then makes up a rule about it, then tries to pass the rule along. Very small beings invariably operate in that way. However, by the time the information is passed on, new things are happening that the old rule doesn’t fit. Eventually intelligence learns to stop making rules and understand the flow.””

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 354)

“Morgot and Myra would tell her there wasn’t any reason to make promises or seek changes because the Great Mother didn’t bargain. The deity didn’t change her mind for women’s convenience. Her way was immutable. As the temple servers said, “No sentimentality, no romance, no false hopes, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!””

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Which left very little room, Stavia thought, for womanly initiative.
Origine: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 9)

““When your people began to press upon us, long, long ago, we moved into remote enclaves. To us, numbers are not strength; wisdom is strength. What profiteth a race to be numerous and stupid, la? Behold how great we are, saith the lemming!” She laughed.”

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Origine: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 18 (p. 392)

“He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 447)

“Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!”

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Origine: Grass (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 446)

“He calls it the university of the Real One, and it teaches only things that are known to be true, which means it is largely devoted to mathematics and sciences.”

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Elnith in Ch. 46 : nell latimer’s journal, p. 498
The Visitor (2002)

“I mentioned that the small god said she brought the asteroid because of what man had become, and they retorted that man might not have become that if we had been relentless in our education of our young people and had not perpetuated ignorance under the guise of cultural sensitivity and the politically correct.”

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Elnith in Ch. 46 : nell latimer’s journal, p. 498
The Visitor (2002)

“Your leaders worshipped the greed devil when they sold their votes and influence to spread bad stuff; they worshipped the power devil when they valued votes over the health of the planet; they made a pretence of mercy and justice by advocating human rights while they sucked up to dominance devils whose law was torture and whose rule was the enslavement of women.”

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The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor, pp. 461-462
The Visitor (2002)

“Aside from earning their livings, what did your people do, mostly? Games. Sports. Casinos. Loud machines that went fast. Shopping. Lawsuits blaming other for whatever went wrong. What did they believe in? Conspiracy theories. Racial superiority. Heroes with superpowers. Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going on. For every scientist or person in government who really tried to conquer, there were a thousand people buying lottery tickets, drinking beer, watching football, and growing old.”

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The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor, pp. 460-461
The Visitor (2002)

“Each race creates its own devils. You had so many that they specialized. Devils of racial hatred, devils of greed and violence. Devils who killed their own people in orgies of blood. Devils who bombed clinics, devils who bombed school buses, devils who bombed other devils. I got to know every one of them by name. As soon as I arrived, I sent my monsters out to kill them all. They had tarnished my reputation, and though I have lavished much care on mankind, vengeance is mine.”

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The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor, p. 458
The Visitor (2002)

“Once the Regime said that one living cell is a life, real living became irrelevant.”

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Flower in Ch. 37 : leaving bastion, p. 355
The Visitor (2002)

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