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Fritz Reuter Leiber, né le 24 décembre 1910 à Chicago et mort le 5 septembre 1992 à San Francisco, est un écrivain de fantasy et de science-fiction.

Il est particulièrement connu pour les romans de « sword and sorcery » du cycle des épées, cycle d'heroic fantasy qui raconte les aventures de Fafhrd et du Souricier Gris au travers du monde de Newhon. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. décembre 1910 – 5. septembre 1992
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Fritz Leiber: Citations en anglais

“You have been told that the Great God rules the universe—earth and sky. I tell you the Great God is fake!”

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Fritz Leiber livre Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 1 (p. 8)

“What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science?”

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Fritz Leiber livre Conjure Wife

Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 26).
Contexte: What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Contexte: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.

“There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.”

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Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Source: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 240)

“The result is… that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.”

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Fritz Leiber Heroes and Horrors

Source: Heroes and Horrors

“Sometimes I wonder if our memories are as good as we think they are and if the whole past wasn’t once entirely different from anything we remember, and we’ve forgotten that we forgot.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“Armon Jarles, there is only the cosmos and the electronic entities that constitute it, without soul or purpose, save so far as neuronic minds impose purpose upon it.
“Armon Jarles, the Hierarchy embodies the highest form of such purpose.
“Armon Jarles, the supernatural and the idealized have one trait in common. They are not. There is only reality.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 10 (p. 105)

“What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?—wonder and strangeness to life’s very end.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 27 (p. 166)

“He had the illusion, he said, of getting perilously close to the innermost secrets of the universe and finding they were rotten and evil and sardonic.”

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“The Dreams of Albert Moreland” (p. 182); originally published in The Acolyte, #10, Spring 1945
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

“It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 26).

“In the wake of a Big Change, cultures and individuals are transposed, it’s true, yet in the main they continue much as they were, except for the usual scattering of unfortunate but statistically meaningless accidents.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but — doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things — they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.”

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Fritz Leiber

Source: Bazaar of the Bizarre (pp. 233-234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)

“I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 18 (p. 98)

“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

“All of us.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)

“I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)

“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3.

“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 33).

“Now as for thinking your account a tale or story, my dear Franz, to be a good story is to me the highest the highest test of the truth of anything. I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords—those are true—and some do not, and those are merely bad art.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 17 (p. 95)

“I’ve never found anything in occult literature that seemed to have a bearing. You know, the occult—very much like stories of supernatural horror—is a sort of game. Most religions, too. Believe in the game and accept its rules—or the premises of the story—and you can have the thrills or whatever it is you’re after. Accept the spirit world and you can see ghosts and talk to the dear departed. Accept Heaven and you can have the hope of eternal life and the reassurance of an all-powerful god working on your side. Accept Hell and you can have devils and demons, if that’s what you want. Accept—if only for story purposes—witchcraft, druidism, shamanism, magic or some modern variant and you can have werewolves, vampires, elementals. Or believe in the influence and power of a grave, an ancient house or monument, a dead religion, or an old stone with an inscription on it—and you can have inner things of the same general sort. But I’m thinking of the kind of horror—and wonder too, perhaps—that lies beyond any game, that’s bigger than any game, that’s fettered by no rules, conforms to no man-made theology, bows to no charms or protective rituals, that strides the world unseen and strikes without warning where it will, much the same as (though it’s of a different order of existence than all of these) lightning or the plague or the enemy atom bomb. The sort of horror that the whole fabric of civilization was designed to protect us from and make us forget. The horror about which all man’s learning tells us nothing.”

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“A Bit of the Dark World” (pp. 261-262); originally published in Fantastic, February 1962
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

“What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (p. 340).

“Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 34 (p. 270).

“Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).

“Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.”

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Fritz Leiber livre Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 8 (p. 43)

“I know only too well from a personal experience that is number one on my list of things to be forgotten.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“It’s this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos — and don’t tell me that isn’t in the cards! — masquerading as benign omniscient authority.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“I realized that wherever she came from, whatever shaped her, she’s the quintessence of the horror behind the bright billboard. She’s the smile that tricks you into throwing away your money and your life. She’s the eyes that lead you on and on, and then show you death. She’s the creature you give everything for and never really get. She’s the being that takes everything you’ve got and gives nothing in return. When you yearn towards her face on the billboards, remember that. She’s the lure. She’s the bait. She’s the Girl.”

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“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 241)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

““Dreams mean nothing,” he said coldly. “They are unreal.”
“They’re as real as anything else,” she shot back at him. “And they merely mean conscience.””

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Fritz Leiber livre Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14 (p. 145)

“Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.”

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Fritz Leiber livre The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“But now the priests think only one thing. How to hold on to their power as long as mankind lasts—until the sun darkens and the earth freezes!”

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Fritz Leiber livre Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 1 (p. 15)

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