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“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.”

Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 4 (p. 17)

“Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.”

Philip José Farmer book Riders of the Purple Wage

Grandpa Winnegan
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)

“I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman.”

Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977), Ch. 31

“Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited — although some refuse to face even that fact — so new ones must be invented.””

Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 179)

“One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
But also urges us to dare the stars,
This irresistible, this ancient power
Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.”

Philip José Farmer

Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

“Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had arrived at last.
Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his heart had given out forever. Nothingness.
Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly. He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were gone.
It was so quiet he could hear the blood moving in his head. He was alone in a world of soundlessness.
A bright light of equal intensity was everywhere. He could see, yet he did not understand what he was seeing. What were these things above, beside, below him? Where was he?”

Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1)

“Suddenly he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been.”

Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977), Ch. 67

“[Her] perfume was delicate and at the same time with the hint of an odor like a tiger in ambush.”

Philip José Farmer

Из художественных произведений

“The President looked old enough to have created the Big Bang.”

Philip José Farmer

Из художественных произведений

“[The house] looked like an enormous white box which was still not large enough to contain all the troubles and woes of the owners.”

Philip José Farmer

Из художественных произведений

“Quotes from the Riverworld series of novels and stories, about nearly all of humanity finding themselves resurrected on an alien world, for such reasons or purposes as remains unclear.”

Philip José Farmer

The Riverworld series