R. A. Lafferty: Place

R. A. Lafferty was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on place.
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“The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it,
You shiver when you even make a joke of it.”

R. A. Lafferty

On Hellpepper Planet, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: p>The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it,
You shiver when you even make a joke of it.Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,
The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there…Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it.
A wide way leading in and no way out of it! But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there —
Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there.</p

“You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only.”

R. A. Lafferty

Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!

Personality

“Brannagan had been to more places than Finnegan had, including the same places.”

R. A. Lafferty

Source: The Devil is Dead (1971), Ch. 13
Context: Brannagan had been to more places than Finnegan had, including the same places. He had not only skirted the d'Entre-Casteau Islands, he had walked all over them. He had not only sailed through China Straits, he had dived in them for old wrecks. He had not only climbed the Cloudy Mountains, but had panned gold in their streams and dips.

“I've had enough of this place where they stuff you full of bull and then hunt you down and kill you every day.”

R. A. Lafferty

Crewman Humphrey on Valhal, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)

“I will never tell anyone how much fun it is in this place.”

R. A. Lafferty

Oath by Captain Roadstrum not to tell how much fun Valhal is, written in blood from the roots of his torn-out tongue, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)

“‎Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —"”

R. A. Lafferty

The Reefs of Earth (1968)

People , Travel

“It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.”

R. A. Lafferty

The Reefs of Earth (1968)

Way , Hurt

“If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.”

R. A. Lafferty

A lieutenant of Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)