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“Ho desiderato diventare uno scrittore dalla prima volta che ho letto un libro. Ricordo che era un libro per bambini, Timothy la Tartaruga, e mi sono detto che scrivere era la cosa più bella che una persona potesse fare! Poi, a quindici anni, la rivista Fantasy & SF pubblicò un editoriale nel quale si spiegava come fare per proporre un racconto. Ne scrissi subito uno e lo inviai… Ovviamente fu respinto. Però non ci rimasi male, in fondo anche Hemingway si era visto rifiutare alcuni dei suoi lavori! Quindi, da allora, non ho più smesso.”

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“Penso che sia cruciale evocare immagini. Nella fantascienza e nella fantasy… o in qualsiasi altro tipo di fiction, il lettore deve essere indotto a credere che quegli eventi immaginari stiano realmente accadendo a quei personaggi immaginari; quindi lo scrittore deve fare in modo che l'intera cosa appaia il più possibile reale. Ciò significa far sì che il lettore ne conosca l'aspetto, i suoni, i profumi! Lo scrittore deve raffigurare tutto questo in maniera assolutamente precisa… direi, quasi, che debba sperimentarlo! Per poi riversare questa sua 'esperienza' sul lettore.”

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“Quello che io vorrei ottenere con i miei libri è provocare nel lettore quel senso di raggelante vertigine che un libro che parla di cose soprannaturali può infondere. Che si creda o meno alla magia, il nostro cervello è ancora troppo statico per riuscire a disquisire di spettri o di cose bizzarre. Quindi, personalmente, nei miei libri cerco di trattare la magia in modo che sembri 'realistica'. Cerco di basarmi su miti che la gente, più o meno, un tempo conosceva, e cerco di fare in modo che i miei personaggi si comportino come farebbero le persone reali se essa esistesse davvero. Nel contempo cerco di evitare di trasformarla in qualcosa di ultra-tecnologico… proprio per mantenere intatto quel brivido che voglio che il lettore sperimenti, è piuttosto una sorta di trasgressione all'ordine naturale delle cose.”

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Tim Powers: Frasi in inglese

“I’ve learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you’ve got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.”

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Tim Powers libro The Anubis Gates

Origine: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 341)

“He remembered his dismay at finding himself committed to a hand of cards without having honestly looked at the stakes, fourteen years ago. Had he been doing it again? But if the stakes were too frightening to consider, and the game was already lost, what value could there be in clear comprehension?”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 17 (p. 496)

“That’s me, that old guy, that old drunk guy! Who claimed he was my dad? Like, me from the future?”

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

“One future, not the future. There isn’t any the future.”
Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 313)

“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”

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Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Origine: On Stranger Tides

“He thought about crossing his fingers, but clasped her hand instead.”

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Tim Powers libro Last Call

Epilogue (p. 535)
Last Call (1992)

“The landlord crossed himself when they checked in, but an English ten-pound note for a week’s lodging overcame whatever superstitious misgivings the man may have had.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285)

“After a few seconds, he said, “You’re devout, aren’t you? Some species of Christian, I imagine?”
She smiled faintly. “Yes.”
“I would say that was a mark against your intelligence, but since you’re both nice girls, I won’t say it. But you assume a sequel to this life, one in which noble sacrifices are rewarded, or at least noted. I’m convinced that no note is taken at all, and that, as far as any one of us is concerned, the universe comes to an end at the moment of his death.””

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Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 264)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“How old are you, Brian? You ought to know by now that something always breaks up love affairs unless both parties are willing to compromise themselves. And that compromising is harder to do the older and less flexible and more independent you are. It just isn’t in you, Brian. You could no more get married now than you could become a priest, or a sculptor, or a greengrocer.”
Duffy opened his mouth to voice angry denials, then one corner turned up and he closed it. “Damn you,” he said wryly. “Then why do I want to, half the time?”
Aurelianus shrugged. “It’s the nature of the species. There’s a part of a man’s mind that can only relax and go to sleep when he’s with a woman, and that part gets tired of always being tensely awake. It gives orders in so loud a voice that it often drowns out the other components. But when the loud one is asleep at last, the others regain control and chart a new course.” He grinned. “No equilibrium is possible. If you don’t want to put up with the constant seesawing, you must either starve the logical components or bind, gag and lock away in a cellar that one insistent one.”
Duffy grimaced and drank some more brandy. “I’m used to the rocking, and I was never one to get motion-sick,” he said. “I’ll stay on the seesaw.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Aurelianus bowed. “You have that option, sir.”
Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 18 (p. 247)

“The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 10 (p. 140)

“It struck Duffy that a touch of hysteria had sharpened the good fellowship tonight, as if the night wind whistling under the eaves carried some pollen of impermanence, making everyone nostalgic for things they hadn’t yet lost.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 6 (p. 86)

“Gambling was the place where statistics and profound human consequences met most nakedly, after all, and cards, even more than dice or the numbers on a roulette wheel, seemed able to define and perhaps even dictate a player’s…luck.”

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Tim Powers libro Last Call

Origine: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 79)

“Say that again after you’ve been in the same spot and acted differently, old buddy. Maybe then I’ll be ashamed.”

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Tim Powers libro The Anubis Gates

Origine: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 7 (pp. 169-170)

““We’re going to have a séance. Oren, open the whisky, if you would, and pour each of us a full glass.”
“First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte.”

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 339)

“She’s probably only now beginning to be able to think for herself, he thought. And she’ll be hating it. Will she acknowledge the responsibilities that she can now clearly see, or will they be so appalling that she’ll just want to return to the selfless haze?”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 24 (p. 372)

“Solipsism,” said Felise. “I thought that too, for a while, but it was so obvious that my cat didn’t think so, didn’t think I was the only thing in the universe, that I decided it wasn’t true.”

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The Hour of Babel (p. 62)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)

““Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.”

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Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Origine: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 19 (p. 207, quoting T. L. Beddoes)

““William will marry eventually,” he said in a quieter tone. He’ll try to have children—he doesn’t believe any of this.”
“Not even in God,” said Maria sadly, shaking her head, “who is our only hope.”
“And an unhelpfully remote and theoretical hope, at that,” Gabriel snapped.”

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Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 80)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“He was dizzy, and it occurred to him that Newton must have been right when he’d said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 51)

““She chose to reject me!”
That wasn’t a choice, lad—that was an empty gun saying click.””

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Part 1, Chapter 10 (p. 184)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

““God help us,” said Crawford softly.
“If there is one.” Byron grinned. “A whole lot of ghastly things have turned out to be possible, remember.””

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 330)

“Lepidopt didn’t know if he was one of those pipe smokers who always had the thing in his mouth and talked around the stem, or one of the ones who was always fiddling with it in his hands, tamping it and relighting it and shoving a pipe cleaner down it; they were different sorts of men.”

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 8 (p. 118)

“Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.”

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A Soul in a Bottle (p. 37)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Gabriel scowled through his glasses. Why were ghosts such imbeciles? Who could be blamed for striving, at any cost, to avoid forever the decay-of-self that death was?”

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Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 71)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“In the early eighties, savvy Japanese had been scouring Melrose for old leather jackets and jukeboxes, and nervous tourists would drive by to look at the punks with green mohawks; now the funny hairstyles looked as if they’d been done at the Beverly Center. Like a government-subsidized avant-garde, Sullivan had thought as he’d tooled his old van down the crowded avenue, affluent disenfranchisement is just galvanic twitching in a dead frog’s leg.”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 15 (p. 100)

“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”

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Tim Powers libro Last Call

Origine: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)

“You’re still Brian Duffy. As much as you ever were. But you’re Arthur, too, and that kind of outshines everything else. Brandy and water tastes more like brandy than water, after all.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 13 (p. 178)

“He tried to put more conviction into his voice than he felt, and he mentally cursed any God that there might be, for having made this coming ordeal not only tremendously difficult and dangerous, but possibly pointless too.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 400)

““Hey,” Bozzaris said, “nobody’s human.” It was an old Mossad line, a mixture of “nobody’s perfect” and “I’m only human.””

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 4 (p. 58)

“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”

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Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Origine: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 1 (p. 9, repeated on p. 53)

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