Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 174).
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Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 9 “A Moral Dilemma” (p. 140).
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 10 “The Final Struggle” (p. 160).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 135).
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 31).
“Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.”
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 289).
George Alec Effinger Quotes about people
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 177).
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 282).
“You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 128).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 124).
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 3 “Moore and More” (p. 123).
George Alec Effinger: Trending quotes
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 2 “A New Mann” (p. 99).
“Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.”
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 10 “The Final Struggle” (p. 160).
“I liked being the screwer rather than the screwee.”
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 280).
George Alec Effinger Quotes
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 5 “In the Hall of the Mountain Thing” (p. 80).
“The night is this city’s single resource. Well, that and disease.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 14 (p. 217).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 13 (p. 208).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 160).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 17).
“Sometimes the only vitamins I get are in the lime slices in my gimlets.”
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 27).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 89).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 126).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 90).
“With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me.”
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 23).
“The universe doesn’t have secrets,” I said cynically, “only lies and swindles.”
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 63).
“His thoughts grew confused, and he mistook that quality for complexity.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 12 (p. 190).
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 5 “In the Hall of the Mountain Thing” (p. 80).
“I was no more eccentric than your average raving loon.”
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 63).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 4).
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 4 “Queene Eileen” (p. 177).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 174).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 168).
“Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 1 (p. 24).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 16 (p. 226).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 3 (p. 59).
“Are you making that up?” said Dore suspiciously.
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 6 “A Perilous Scheme” (p. 111).
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 2 “A New Mann” (p. 99).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 15 (p. 205).
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 3 “Moore and More” (p. 129).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 20).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 17 (pp. 235-236).
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 2 “Next: The Radishes of Doom” (p. 25).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 13).
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 7 (p. 95).
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 30).
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 4 “The Song of the Sword” (p. 56).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 166).
“I see unhealthy signs of a new regime of religiosity and conservatism.”
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 3 “A Woman’s Treachery” (p. 48).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 20 (p. 270).
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 1 “New Streets and Roads” (p. 51).
“There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword.”
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 9 “A Moral Dilemma” (p. 146).
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 1 “Prelude to...Danger!” (p. 19).
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 123).
“What do you know about the activities of the brain and the nervous system?”
I laughed. “About as much as any hustler from the Budayeen who can barely read and write his name. I know that the brain is in the head, I’ve heard that it’s a bad idea to let some thug spill it on the sidewalk. Beyond that, I don’t know much.” I did, truthfully, know some more, but I always hold something in reserve. It’s a good policy to be a little quicker, a little stronger, and a little smarter than everybody thinks you are.
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 160).
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 31).
“I think it was the vague promise of sexual freedom that did it,” said Weintraub wryly. “That seems to work on everybody. Even the clergy.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 177).
“You shouldn’t be so critical. Some people like this kind of thing, you know.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 13 (p. 199).
