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                                        Volume 3, Ch. 17 
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
                                    
“We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.”
                                        
                                        Volume 2, Ch. 2 
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
                                    
“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
Source: The Claw of the Conciliator
                                        
                                        "Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009) 
Fiction
                                    
“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”
                                        
                                        "The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005) 
Fiction
                                    
                                        
                                        Volume 1: On Blue's Waters (1999), Ch. 1 
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
                                    
                                        
                                        "The Pirates of Florida and Other Impossibilities", speech at the Conference on the Fantastic (1991), as published in Castle of Days (1992) 
Nonfiction
                                    
                                        
                                        Volume 3, Ch. 4 
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
                                    
                                        
                                        "Sun of Helioscope", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992) 
Nonfiction
                                    
                                        
                                        Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (43rd World Science Fiction Convention, August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992) 
Nonfiction
                                    
“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”
                                        
                                        The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355 
Nonfiction
                                    
                                        
                                        "From a Chain letter to George R. R. Martin and Greg Benford", 10 July 1982; as published in Castle of Days (1992) 
Nonfiction
                                    
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 24, "The Captain" (p. 176)
                                        
                                        "A Few Points About Knife Throwing", Fantasy Newsletter (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992) 
Nonfiction
                                    
“People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.”
                                        
                                        The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62 
Fiction
                                    
                                        
                                        "Empires of Foliage and Flower" (1987), first appeared as a limited edition chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005) 
Fiction
                                    
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 46, "The Runaway" (p. 326)
“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”
                                        
                                        "The Adopted Father", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992) 
Fiction
                                    
 
 
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    