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“Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.”

First line, spoken by Sam Clemens.
The Riverworld series, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

“His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.
He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"”

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1; First lines, depicting the death of Sir Richard Francis Burton).

“Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles — if you knew all the facts.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 172)

“"Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 19

“The world took a shape which he could grasp, though he could not comprehend it. Above him, on both sides, below him, as far as he could see, bodies floated. They were arranged in vertical and horizontal rows. The up-and-down ranks were separated by red rods, slender as broomsticks, one of which was twelve inches from the feet of the sleepers and the other twelve inches from their heads. Each body was spaced about six feet from the body above and below and on each side.
The rods came up from an abyss without bottom and soared into an abyss without ceiling. That grayness into which the rods and the bodies, up and down, right and left, disappeared was neither the sky nor the earth. There was nothing in the distance except the lackluster of infinity.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 3)

“Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age
Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.”

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"Beauty in This Iron Age" in Starlanes #11 (Fall 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

“This is what the visitor said the Ethicals had learned from the Ancients. The Creator, God, the One Spirit, call it what you will, forms all. It is the universe; the universe is it. But its body is formed of two essences. One is matter, the other, for lack of a better word, is nonmatter.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 19

“Let those who think the soul is shallow rail,
They must be warned before they dare to leap
They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep
In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.”

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"Job's Leviathan" in JD Argassy #58 (1961); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

“God, Whose hand holds stars, as we lump earth
In our fingers, give us power, give us light
To hold all love within our breast's small space.”

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Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

“Dreams haunted The Riverworld.”

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First lines.
The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977)

“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 4 (p. 17)

“Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.”

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Philip José Farmer livre Riders of the Purple Wage

Grandpa Winnegan
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)

“I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977), Ch. 31

“Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited — although some refuse to face even that fact — so new ones must be invented.””

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 179)

“Zeitgeist rides tonight, and the devil take the hindmost!”

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Philip José Farmer livre Riders of the Purple Wage

Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)

“One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
But also urges us to dare the stars,
This irresistible, this ancient power
Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.”

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Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

“Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had arrived at last.
Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his heart had given out forever. Nothingness.
Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly. He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were gone.
It was so quiet he could hear the blood moving in his head. He was alone in a world of soundlessness.
A bright light of equal intensity was everywhere. He could see, yet he did not understand what he was seeing. What were these things above, beside, below him? Where was he?”

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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1)

“Suddenly he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been.”

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Source: The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977), Ch. 67

“[Her] perfume was delicate and at the same time with the hint of an odor like a tiger in ambush.”

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Из художественных произведений

“The President looked old enough to have created the Big Bang.”

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Из художественных произведений

“[The house] looked like an enormous white box which was still not large enough to contain all the troubles and woes of the owners.”

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Из художественных произведений

“Quotes from the Riverworld series of novels and stories, about nearly all of humanity finding themselves resurrected on an alien world, for such reasons or purposes as remains unclear.”

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The Riverworld series

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