Quotes of: Strange-world Keyword

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

The Book of Strange New Things

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

I Am a Strange Loop

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF. Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

In a Strange City

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Stranger in a Strange Land

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Stranger in a Strange Land

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Stranger in a Strange Land

He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.

Stranger in a Strange Land

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

Toll the Hounds

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower