Quotes from book
The Wanderer

Name: The Wanderer
Author: Fritz Leiber

The Wanderer is a science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber, published as a paperback original by Ballantine Books in 1964. It won the 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

“It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 26).

“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3.

“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 33).

“What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (p. 340).

“Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 34 (p. 270).

“The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).

“There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).

“Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 40 (p. 312).

“Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 113).

“The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That’s why they’re the gods! I told you they were devils.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (pp. 336-337).

“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 21 (p. 158).

“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”

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Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Context: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.