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What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
Gene Wolfe
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Gene Wolfe
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: May 7
Died: 2019
Died: April 14
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Military Engineer
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New York City
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Gene Rodman Wolfe
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Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.
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Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
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I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.
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All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?
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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
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We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.
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Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
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We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
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God is the nest we build together.
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Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
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