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Timothy Thomas Powers, né le 29 février 1952 à Buffalo dans l'État de New York, est un auteur américain de science-fiction et de fantastique. Il habite actuellement Muscoy en Californie.

✵ 29. février 1952
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Tim Powers: Citations en anglais

“You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.”

Tim Powers

A Time To Cast Away Stones (p. 126)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Work out your own damnation,” he said breathlessly, “in fear and trembling.”

Tim Powers

Source: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 114 (parodying Philippians 2.12) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A12&version=KJV

“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”

Tim Powers livre Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 34 (p. 253)

“The church has become a more…exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.”

Tim Powers livre The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 10 (p. 129)

“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”

Tim Powers livre Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)

“All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale’s whole life.”

Tim Powers livre Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (p. 182)

“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”

Tim Powers livre The Stress of Her Regard

Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

“Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.”

Tim Powers livre The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285; quoting from the journal of Edward Williams)

“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”

Tim Powers livre Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)

“Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans’ error.”

Tim Powers livre The Anubis Gates

Source: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 370)

“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”

Tim Powers livre Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 10 (p. 285)

““And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.””

Tim Powers

The Hour of Babel (p. 61)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.”

Tim Powers livre The Drawing of the Dark

Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 183)

“I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.”

Tim Powers

Part 1, Chapter 8 (p. 141)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“We’re going to have a séance. Oren, open the whisky, if you would, and pour each of us a full glass.”

Tim Powers livre Three Days to Never

“First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte.
Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 339)

“Where’s the sane world?”

Tim Powers

Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. “I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.”
Source: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 13, “Would You Prevent God?” (p. 230)

“Guesses based on guesses are of no value.”

Tim Powers

Source: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 2, “A Lot of M&Ms and Cigarettes” (p. 43)

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