Gene Wolfe citations

Gene Rodman Wolfe, né le 7 mai 1931 à Brooklyn dans l'État de New York et mort le 14 avril 2019 à Peoria dans l'Illinois, est un écrivain américain de science-fiction et de fantasy.

Il est connu pour son écriture très riche en allusions et pour l'influence de sa foi catholique sur ses écrits. Les œuvres de Wolfe, romans comme nouvelles, ont été nominées à de nombreuses reprises pour le prix Hugo, le prix Nebula et le prix World Fantasy. Dans une moindre mesure, son roman Le Chevalier reçoit le prix du Cafard cosmique en 2006. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. mai 1931 – 14. avril 2019  •  Autres noms جین وولف
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Gene Wolfe Citations

“Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.”

Gene Wolfe livre L'Ombre du bourreau

The Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe: Citations en anglais

“We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 2, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“People don't want other people to be people.”

Gene Wolfe

Source: Shadow & Claw

“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”

Gene Wolfe The Claw of the Conciliator

Source: The Claw of the Conciliator

“The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.”

Gene Wolfe

"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.”

Gene Wolfe livre Starwater Strains

"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

“The true dawn of adulthood, of intellectual maturity, if you like, is the realization that adults are all fools.”

Gene Wolfe

"The Pirates of Florida and Other Impossibilities", speech at the Conference on the Fantastic (1991), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 3, Ch. 4
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“It will come as no surprise to those of you in the book trade when I say that although books do not cause cancer, books in general do not sell as well as cigarettes.”

Gene Wolfe

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.”

Gene Wolfe

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction

“Yours is a race of pawns,” Tzadkiel told me. “You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.”

Gene Wolfe

Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 24, "The Captain" (p. 176)

“People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.”

Gene Wolfe The Wizard Knight

The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62
Fiction

“Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.”

Gene Wolfe livre Starwater Strains

"Empires of Foliage and Flower" (1987), first appeared as a limited edition chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction

“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”

Gene Wolfe livre Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

"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

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