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Gene Wolfe
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Gene Wolfe
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: May 7
Died: 2019
Died: April 14
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New York City
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Gene Rodman Wolfe
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A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
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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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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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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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Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
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People don't want other people to be people.
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All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.
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Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
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Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
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Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
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We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.
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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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A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
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...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
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...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
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