Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

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• Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and…
• Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
• Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse,…
• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which…
• I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part…
• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little…
• Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
• Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us…
• The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
• There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
• Science fiction still is an idea genre.
• I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
• It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book…
• The expression of divinity is in variety.
• What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be…
• The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
• I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They…
• [T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of…
• We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
• Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with…

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