"When a gift is deserved, it is not…" — Gene Wolfe
"When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment."
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48 Quotes by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe has 48 quotes on this site.
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all.…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet.…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army…
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More Deserved Quotes
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose…
— Jo Brand
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Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have…
— Eric Alterman
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because…
— Bruce Barton
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Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I…
— Jane Fonda
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted…
— Chapman Cohen
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's…
— Samuel L. Jackson
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The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Unknown Author
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I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best…
— Don Haskins
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Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never…
— Dominique Wilkins
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