R. A. Lafferty Short Quotes

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There are no rules. We do whatever seems the most fun.

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When you can't depend on the Devil, who can you depend on?

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I will never tell anyone how much fun it is in this place.

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"My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. "Reality melts away."

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Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.

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The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

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When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

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Be not nervous. In a very little while you will either be a member or you will not be.

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If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.

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True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

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Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.

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Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream.

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This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.

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I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.

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The shapes they take are both objective and subjective. One can shape them a little with one's own mind.

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I've had enough of this place where they stuff you full of bull and then hunt you down and kill you every day.

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As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

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There are skies we have not seen yet! There are whole realms still unvisited by us. We will not be penned in even a giant's pen. We fly!

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"A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead."
"Isn't that the usual fate of men, Harry?"

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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

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"Tell me the truth, girl: how does the man next door ship out trailer-loads of material from a building ten times too small to hold the stuff?" "He cuts prices."

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It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once.

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It was the most exclusive club in the world, in all the worlds, and this is a mighty pale statement to make about it. Let us emphasize that it was hard to get into.

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These men were the salt of the skies, the one out of ten who had determinedly stayed alive through the whole war, very often hurt, absolutely refusing to be killed.

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Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

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Now then, I have given you a short fair hearing as the law requires. I do not solicit the support of your party, though, in all honesty, if it had more than one member I might.

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The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms. Roadstrum put it back in his pocket and once more contemplated his good fortune.

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You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!

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I'm the guy who keeps it all going. If I weren't here, you wouldn't be here either. I know it all, I'm a smart-aleck. Loan-sharking and fencing. Any time I can't see you, you've had it.

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It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.

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