Gene Wolfe - People Quotes

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There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.

Gene Wolfe

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Gene Wolfe

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read — I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.

Gene Wolfe

People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.

Gene Wolfe

Nobody bothers crazy people. [...] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.

Gene Wolfe

I have never in my whole life had a fight with a smart person or even seen anybody else have one either. That is because when the fight starts the smart people are not there anymore. They have gone off someplace else, and when it is over they come back and tell you how much they did in the fight, only it is all lies.

Gene Wolfe

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

Gene Wolfe