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Avram Davidson, né le 23 avril 1923 à Yonkers dans l'État de New York et mort le 8 mai 1993 à Bremerton dans l'État de Washington, est un écrivain américain de science-fiction, fantasy et roman policier. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. avril 1923 – 8. mai 1993
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Avram Davidson: Citations en anglais

“But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 9

“Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.”

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Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter V (p. 49)

“A querulous whine that was almost a question was succeeded by a deep gobble that was almost an answer.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 1

“The ceremony was long and intricate, probably none of them could have explained why half of it was done, and the explanations for the other half would probably have been thoroughly incorrect.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 10

“The fact that you know the questions,” he said, a mite grudgingly, “tends to make me think you might really know the answers.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 100)

“She spun, as a matter of form and status alone, her woollen yarn and her oft-breaking thread. What else did she spin? he wondered. And the answer, not spoken aloud, was, a web.
And one that now seemed sure to hold him fast.
To hold him fast indeed.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“He who has slain one, will he abstain from slaying many?”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 5 (p. 68)

“These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 11

“Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 57)

““How is your new woman? Your new-est one, I sh’d say.”
Jack shrugged. “Good enough. They all got the same thing.”
“Yeh-es,” Jeff nodded, judiciously. “But some of ’m’s got more of it than others.””

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 1 (p. 16)

“Hmm…hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

“Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 143)

““Drew a knife on us,” one muttered, with the sullen rage of the bully who feels wronged when resisted.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 5

“It is not in the nature of any people that it should willingly endure being ruled by another people, whether it is ruled ill or ruled well.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 10

“The beast is always doomed. It’s better to face the fact honestly and not pretty it up with a lot of lies about blowing off steam and reducing tensions and getting rid of this and that, acting out anxieties, moment of truth. Piddle. There’s an ancient word, I don’t know what language it is. Bazazz. All those arguments are a lot of bazazz. Unless you’re wiping out vermin or hunting for meat to eat, the man who kills animals does so because he likes to kill. And people who like to watch do so because they like to see things being killed.”

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Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter XI (p. 137)

“The short man was all of a piece, but there was nothing reassuring in this; it was a piece of the same material that too many high school principals, boys’ camp directors, and military and naval officers are made of: a texture or quality often dignified by the description, “ability to command”—the desire to bully, override, bear down—the capacity to do so by virtue of office—the habit of having done so for a long time and the confidence of continuing to do so for a long time.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 85)

“And then in that, admittedly magnificent, abrupt moment you saw what I concede without argument was the face of rather an attractive wench, and—Zeus! you weren’t thinking, man—you were simply reacting. It wasn’t your heart, it was your codpiece that the impulse came from!”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 12

“There may be someone here who knows less about all this than I do,” Clemens said, “but I can’t imagine who.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

“The instructor-Na has observed in the Na 14 tendencies toward an archaic and dangerous quality to which the ancients gave the name personal ambition.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 2 (p. 30)

“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Tell him you’ll pay any fine within reason. That dragon-cod can’t even read his own name unless it’s written in gold ink.”

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Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter VII (p. 73)

“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 108)

“Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.”

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Avram Davidson livre The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 9

“Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.”

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Avram Davidson livre Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 1 (p. 19)

“It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce?”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)