“What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 41)
Michael Bishop: 25 citations0 J'aime
Michael Bishop: Citations en anglais
“God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 34)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 14, “Denouement: Ascent to the Acropolis” (p. 266)
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 18 “In a Season of Drought” (p. 158)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 5, “Ambivalence: The Children of the Ouemartsee” (p. 93)
“Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 11, “Usurpation: Two Meteors, Prodigal of Light” (p. 196)
“Outside the rain continued its cadenced and indifferent commentary.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 12, “Debacle: The Swarmings” (p. 240)
“Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.”
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 10 “Fruit of the Looms” (p. 76)
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 315; closing words)
“Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 5, “Ambivalence: The Children of the Ouemartsee” (p. 92)
“They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.”
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 303)
“What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 1, “Planetfall: The Hawks of Conscience” (p. 33)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 11, “Usurpation: Two Meteors, Prodigal of Light” (p. 200)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 7, “Interlude: Heartseed and Tower” (p. 142)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 6, “Inquisition: The Messiah Who Came Too Late” (p. 113)
“Like all such prophecies, it’s impressive only if not examined too closely.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 13, “Aftermath: Sarcophagi and Coffins” (p. 249)
“Who but a madman would grapple with mountains?”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 4, “Enlightenment: Down on the Edgegleam Plains” (p. 75)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 35)
“Coercion is the tool of the desperate.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 3, “Superstitions: A Night Piece” (p. 64)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 14, “Denouement: Ascent to the Acropolis” (p. 265)
“Paleoanthropologists were congenitally media-oriented.”
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 17 “Pensacola, Florida” (p. 147)
“Time, as it always does, passed.”
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Coda (p. 316)
No Enemy But Time (1982)
“You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.”
Michael Bishop livre No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 23 “Panama City, Florida” (p. 206)
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 4, “Enlightenment: Down on the Edgegleam Plains” (p. 83)
“No, not if you’re narrating a dream. But if you claim, like the Pledgeson, that your visions and reality are the same thing, then, yes I expect consistency. I’m too old for pointless fairy tales.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 7, “Interlude: Heartseed and Tower” (p. 142)
