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Michael Jurgen Swanwick – amerykański pisarz fantasy i science fiction oraz krytyk fantastyki. Jeden z najczęściej nagradzanych twórców s-f ostatnich lat. Zajmuje się także teorią fantastyki. Mieszka w Filadelfii. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Listopad 1950
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Michael Swanwick słynne cytaty

„Tak wygląda cena, jaką płaci się za posiadanie surowego umysłu. Człowiek jest cały czas zdany na łaskę i niełaskę sił, których do końca nie rozumie. Przez moment czułem się jak zdziczałe dziecko, które stoi zawieszone między polem uprawnym a puszczą, gdzie grasują wilki, niezdolne dokonać wyboru między jednym a drugim.”

Michael Swanwick

Surowe umysły

„Czasami – stwierdziłem ostrożnie – lubię swoje emocje.
– Ja też – kiedy mam je pod kontrolą – odparła nieco szorstko Hellene. – Nie wolno oceniać przeżyć na podstawie wadliwie działającego mediatora.”

Michael Swanwick

Surowe umysły

„Zwróciłem uwagę na Hellene nie dlatego, że była piękna – kto po pierwszej godzinie patrzy jeszcze na urodę?”

Michael Swanwick

Surowe umysły

„Co widzisz, kiedy medytujesz?
– Czasem pocieszenie; innym razem ból.
– Nie lubię dwuznaczności. To wytwór starego świata.”

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Surowe umysły

Michael Swanwick: Cytaty po angielsku

“Good men are dying at this very moment to protect you, your factories, your possessions, and all civilization.”

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Michael Swanwick książka Jack Faust

“Good men are dying every moment,” Gretchen replied coldly, “somewhere. Since they did not ask my leave to do so, I feel no particular obligation toward them.”
Źródło: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 13, “Tabloids” (p. 219)

“Out of doors on a moonless night?”

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Michael Swanwick książka Jack Faust

Mette sneered. “Only fools, footpads, and astrologers stray where there is no light.”
Źródło: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 4, “Flight” (p. 57)

“Now here is a treasure, Averroës Commentaries on Aristotle in a tolerable translation from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona.”

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Michael Swanwick książka Jack Faust

He lasciviously stroked the red leather boards, knowing well how his pupil ached for the chance to pore through it. “A liar’s gloss on a liar’s lies. Surely this is a rare criminal.”
Źródło: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 7)

“Can you really kill the Goddess?”

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Michael Swanwick książka The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Jane asked.
“You stupid gobbet of flesh! Don’t you understand yet? There is no Goddess.”
“No,” Jane cried. “You said yourself—”
“I lied,” the dragon said with a fearful complacency. “Everyone you have ever met has lied to you. Life exists, and all who live are born to suffer. The best moments are fleeting and bought with the coin of exquisite torment. All attachments end. All loved ones die. All that you value passes away. In such a vexatious existence laughter is madness and joy is folly. Shall we accept that it all happens for no reason, with no cause? That there is nobody to blame but ourselves but that accepting the responsibility is pointless for doing so cannot ease, defer, or deaden the pain? Not likely! It is so much more comforting to erect a straw figure on which to blame it all.
“Some bow down before the Goddess and others curse her every name. There is not a fart’s difference between the two approaches. They cling to the fiction of the Goddess because admitting the alternative is unbearable.”
Źródło: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 19 (pp. 339-340)

“Your collection is not a woman. That’s only a metaphor—an abstraction! You’ll be dying for nothing, for a principle that nobody else can even comprehend.”

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Michael Swanwick książka The Iron Dragon's Daughter

As she spoke, Jane became convinced that she herself would never willingly die for a principle. She might feel guilty about it, but she’d smile and lie, knuckle under, pretend, anything, in order to survive. It made her feel a little sad to realize this, but also, at the same time, very adult.
Źródło: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 15 (p. 263)

“The oracle-glass was maddeningly literal, capable of answering only the question one asked, rather than that which one wanted answered.”

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Michael Swanwick

Źródło: Short fiction, King Dragon (2003), p. 6