Avram Davidson cytaty
strona 2

Avram Davidson – amerykański pisarz fantastyki i literatury kryminalnej oraz autor wielu opowiadań nie pasujących do jego niszy gatunkowej. Zdobył nagrodę Hugo oraz trzy nagrody World Fantasy Awards, a także World Fantasy Life Achievement, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine short story award i Nagrodę im. Edgara Allana Poe. W latach 1962-1964 wydawał The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Jego ostatnia powieść, The Boss in the Wall: The Treatise on the House Devil, została ukończona przez Grania Davisa i zdobyła nominację do Nagrody Nebula w 1998. Według The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction autor jest jednym z najbardziej literackich pisarzy fantastyki naukowej. Wikipedia

✵ 23. Kwiecień 1923 – 8. Maj 1993

Avram Davidson: 41 Cytatów 0 Polubień

Avram Davidson: Cytaty po angielsku

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

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson książka Masters of the Maze

Źródło: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

Źródło: 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!”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson książka The Phoenix and the Mirror

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

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

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson książka The Phoenix and the Mirror

Źródło: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

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.”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

Vergil in Averno (1987)

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

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson książka The Phoenix and the Mirror

Źródło: 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…”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

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!”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson książka The Phoenix and the Mirror

to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!
Źródło: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

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.”

Help us translate this quote

Avram Davidson

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