R.A. Lafferty

“Aye, a man’d be a fool to lose his head twice over the same thing,” Thomas mused, still looking more than half…

— R.A. Lafferty

“The Goths had trained bears and possibly, from one garbled account, trained seals. The dance is something with no survival, lacking verbal…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Olympius, in the name of the Emperor Honorius, ordered the forces in Bologna to take the field against Alaric, on peril of…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Paul was coursing at fantastic speed towards the area where the little twin stars Rhium and Antirhium revolved around each other. “Hurry,”…

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“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band…

— R.A. Lafferty

“I say no man ever before slew his friend mouthful of words.” “And I say it has happened many times before. Consider…

— R.A. Lafferty

“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me…

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“But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we…

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“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more…

— R.A. Lafferty

“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Dr. Ginochio Gyves would have been the first man on the moon except for a trifling error of navigation. He lands. He…

— R.A. Lafferty

“After we were men we were tribal gods. We each have our tribe that we sometimes inspire and that we follow with…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the…

— R.A. Lafferty

“You believe, in one of your theories, that we're in control of the world. We aren't. But we have been, and we…

— R.A. Lafferty

“It is said that—Arcadius having offered its weight in gold for the head of Gainas—King Uldin drew out the brains of Gainas…

— R.A. Lafferty

“And the people had begun to gather, tame people with a new wild look about them. Like wolves they were, and they…

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“Fortunately—for the purposes of this study but not for those involved, for it was a bloody affair—the battle was fought all over…

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“Atrox Fabulinus, the Roman Rabelais, once broke off the account of his hero Raphaelus in the act of opening a giant goose…

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“There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern…

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“Pottscamp felt nothing; he was, of course, a machine without feeling. He had no conscience or compassion. This would not bother him…

— R.A. Lafferty

“What about Cathead?” Thomas asked the precis machine. “Cathead is the cancer that is being excised from this world. It is the…

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“Christopher couldn't recall what day it was; he certainly didn't know what hour it was. It was a gray day, but there…

— R.A. Lafferty

“I know the look of a hunted man, even a defiant one. Surely there are not King’s Men on Astrobe who hunt…

— R.A. Lafferty