Philip José Farmer Short Quotes

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Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

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Zeitgeist rides tonight, and the devil take the hindmost!

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Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

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This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

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It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

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"Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke.

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Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.

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There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

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Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age
Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

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Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself...

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Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

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I did it! she said. I... I! I wanted to! Oh, what a vile low whore I am!
I don't remember offering you any money.

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His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.
He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"

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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

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As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

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Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles — if you knew all the facts.

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Can imagination act
Perpendicular to fact?
Can it be a kite that flies
Till the Earth, umbrella-wise,
Folds and drops away from sight?

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God, Whose hand holds stars, as we lump earth
In our fingers, give us power, give us light
To hold all love within our breast's small space.

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All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

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Suddenly he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been.

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We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I. And they're
Very hard to mutter
Through so much chatter and stutter.

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Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars. Below,
Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.

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Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
The tender alcoves built by love at night.

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Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

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Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine.
Look, Job! Caught Beauty, held to light, now apes
A good, now evil, thing — the shifting sign
And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

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