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Avram Davidson amerikai sci-fi-szerző.

✵ 23. április 1923 – 8. május 1993

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“Follow me, men! I’m right behind you!”

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Avram Davidson könyv Masters of the Maze

Forrás: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 101)

“There was an inn…which kept no register of…a number of seamstresses and tailors who lacked time and place and perhaps inclination to weave the cloths they cut and sewed, depending instead on the activities of those who preferred not to vex the original owners with the tiresome bookkeeping inseparable from purchase.”

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Forrás: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter VIII (p. 81)

“Surely you’ll at least see the Temple? Respect all religions, is my motto, believe in none. Sensible principle. Still, you know, must say, after all, two thousand beautiful priestesses! All ready, willing, able—and I must say—dextrous!— to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!”

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Avram Davidson könyv The Phoenix and the Mirror

Forrás: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 8

“Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.”

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Avram Davidson könyv The Phoenix and the Mirror

Forrás: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 11

“Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“It’s not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It’s merely a matter of who gets caught.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.”

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Avram Davidson könyv The Phoenix and the Mirror

Forrás: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them…”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Surely you’ll at least see the Temple? Respect all religions, is my motto, believe in none. Sensible principle. Still, you know, must say, after all, two thousand beautiful priestesses! All ready, willing, able—and I must say—dextrous!”

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Avram Davidson könyv The Phoenix and the Mirror

to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!
Forrás: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 8

“In general I find little girls enchanting. What a shame they grow up to be big girls and make our lives as miserable as we allow them, and oft-times more.”

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My Boy Friend’s Name is Jello (p. 95)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)

“When the records of our civilization are balanced, then—but perhaps not before—the real importance of dental science will be appreciated. Now it is merely valued at the moment of toothache.”

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Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper (p. 59)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)