# Michael Bishop

- Quotes: 24
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop

## Books

- [A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/a-funeral-for-the-eyes-of-fire.md) — 17 quotes
- [No Enemy But Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time.md) — 7 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Who but a madman would grapple with mountains?

p. 75

> But each man who worships you sees only what he wishes to see rather than any mystery you may actually embody.

p. 113

> Outside the rain continued its cadenced and indifferent commentary.

p. 240

> What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that.

p. 41

> “Do you expect even dreams to unravel rationally, Kahl Balduin? Must each event have a precise, empirical cause?”
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> “No, not if you’re narrating a dream. But if you claim, like the Pledgeson, that your visions and reality are the same thing, then, yes I expect consistency. I’m too old for pointless fairy tales.”

p. 142

> Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced.

p. 92

> A rational, humane solution—for Gelvri, as Elgran Vrai, believed rationality and humaneness tautologies, different names for the same thing.

p. 266

> They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.

p. 303

> Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose.
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> “Ciao,” he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother.

p. 315

> Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

p. 158

> What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?

p. 33

> The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances, from their effete elders’ pettiness. Contagion is a generational fact. But children can develop defenses against their elders’ spiritual scurvy simply because they’re new.

p. 93