--- title: "1 City hall Quotes By Philip Jose Farmer" description: "1 City hall quotes by Philip Jose Farmer. Plus more from Philip Jose Farmer and more City hall sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/philip-jose-farmer-13328_big-words_it-s-this-smoke-from-the-burnin-garbage_2803001.jpg" --- > [“It’s this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain’t it? Lookit! The smoke’s risin’ t‘ward the full moon like the ghosts a men so rotten even their spirits’re carryin the contamination with em. Hey,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/it-s-this-smoke-from-the-burnin-garbage-kid-enough-to-make-a-maggot/) [Philip José Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/philip-jose-farmer-13328_big-words_it-s-this-smoke-from-the-burnin-garbage_2803001.jpg) ## Other authors on City hall ## More by Philip Jose Farmer > [Tomorrow changes the face of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/tomorrow-changes-the-face-of-reality/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/miles-above-the-earth-we-know-fancy-s-rocket-roars-below-here-and-now/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [“The n'k did not want to be enlightened. They resented the truth as if it threatened them. In this respect, they are most like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/the-n-k-did-not-want-to-be-enlightened-they-resented-the-truth-as-if/) [Philip José Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us to dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/one-thing-is-sure-o-comrades-that-the-love-that-fights-to-keep-us/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [“yet the world between them was wide.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/yet-the-world-between-them-was-wide/) [Philip José Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/by-now-you-must-have-accepted-the-fact-that-your-religion-in-fact/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [“Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/look-at-those-mountains-they-go-straight-up-smooth-as-a-politician/) [Philip José Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [“First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/first-humiliation-then-humility-he-would-have-said-and-then-comes/) [Philip José Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/sawbeaked-epitome-of-bodiless-idea-tossed-by-gusts-of-ether-dive/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/all-the-human-beings-i-met-were-either-sure-that-there-would-be-no/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/let-those-who-think-the-soul-is-shallow-rail-they-must-be-warned/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/caught-beauty-held-to-light-now-apes-a-good-now-evil-thing-the/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/everybody-should-fear-only-one-person-and-that-person-should-be/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/it-was-the-essence-of-life-to-disbelieve-in-death-for-one-s-self-to/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) > [Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jose-farmer/resurrection-like-politics-makes-strange-bedfellows/) [Philip Jose Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jose-farmer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city-hall/philip-jose-farmer/#itemlist", "name": "1 City hall Quotes By Philip Jose Farmer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It’s this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain’t it? Lookit! 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