Frasi di Sheri S. Tepper
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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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“But how is it you know all this about how large the ocean is? I thought you girls were limited to pretty chatter and the economics of housekeeping. I didn’t know you learned geography.”

“We don’t,” she said, somewhat shamefaced. “But we learned to read, and once one can read, one can learn anything.”
Origine: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 17, “Merdune Lagoon” (p. 272)

“What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.”

Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 67)

“Old gods sometimes do that in their retirement. They become galactic social workers, self-appointed do-gooders.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 502)

“The place displayed luxury without comfort, ostentation without are. I hated it.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 44, “I Am Gretamara/On Chottem” (p. 398)

“Human worlds are always awash in superstition, only a stubborn elite proof against it.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 306)

“The human problem?”

I asked, somewhat offended.
She put her arm around me. “Forgive me, Gretamara, but your race as a whole has the unfailing habit of fouling its nest, killing its original planet, and doing its best to kill any others to which it is moved. Because we love and admire the human race for its many good qualities, we call this not ‘the human condition,’ meaning an irrevocable state, but ‘the human problem,’ one we wish to solve. The effort has gone on for some millennia, without result, and some of those involved in the effort are beginning to believe it is a waste of time and treasure.”
Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 32, “I Am Gretamara/On Mars” (pp. 276-277)

“They learn nothing, for they’re convinced they know everything that matters.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 24, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 196)

“The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 13, “I Am Naumi/On Thairy” (p. 96)

“Of course, the governor says the man is mistaken.”

“Governor says he's a stupid ass,” muttered Haurvatat. “I think the man has a glitch in his software somewhere.”
Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 13)

“What kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?”

Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 17 (p. 123)

“How did this happen?”

she demanded from the world at large.
“Software,” the hardware consultant opined.
“Hardware,” the software support person snarled.
Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 51)

“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”

Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

“I have often wondered why anger is considered by some Western religions to be a sin. It is such a marvelous protection against evil.”

Origine: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore (1985), Chapter 2 (p. 45)

“Perhaps my cynicism comes in good time. Better I have it early than too late.”

Origine: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 8, “A Proposal and What Followed” (p. 139)

“It’s hard to talk like a human being when one hasn’t been treated like one for years!”

Origine: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 7, “Aufors Leys” (p. 106)

“For those impervious to history, only sterilization and quarantine are efficacious.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 507)

“Fear and superstition always follow the unseen, the unknown, the whispered of.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 312)

“Anything interesting in the paper? Some tragedy, some comedy, nothing that’ll matter in a hundred years.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 28, “I Am Margaret/On Tercis” (p. 238)

“Great wealth breeds great arrogance.”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 14, “I Am Margaret/On Earth” (p. 115)

“A court dedicated to pure justice, one that can overrule the law! They didn’t even have one of those back on old Earth!”

Origine: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 10, “I Am Wilvia/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 69)

“I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.”

Origine: The True Game, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 48)

“If one may not sleep and one may not act, then what use is there sitting about?”

Origine: The True Game, The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 8 (pp. 150-151)

“There are those who must find fault somewhere, among the dead if they cannot find enough among the living.”

Origine: The True Game, The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 2 (p. 31)

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