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Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
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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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
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...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
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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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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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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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Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
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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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