Quote by 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 stubborn. “Of…

— 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 or pictorial…

— 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 the death…

— 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 to heaven…

— 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,” were his…

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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 most challenged…

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

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

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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 still owe…

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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 than a…

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

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

— R.A. Lafferty