“Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.”
Gene Wolfe livre L'Ombre du bourreau
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe: 103 citations0 J'aime
Gene Wolfe Citations
Gene Wolfe: Citations en anglais
"The Right of Things to Come", presentation for the Science Fiction Research Association (1978), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
Gene Wolfe livre The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”
Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)
Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”
Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Volume 2, Ch. 23
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”
Gene Wolfe livre The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction
“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)
