# The Fabulous Riverboat

- Author: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-fabulous-riverboat

## Quotes

> Styles was an old Mississippi pilot, a handsome youth, no liar, though given to inflating facts.

p. 222

> Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.

p. 135

> Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

p. 225

> “It’s a nice toy and makes a lot of noise and looks impressive and will kill a man. But it’s wasteful and inefficient.”
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> “You make it sound like a congressman,” Sam said.

p. 109

> A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

p. 18

> Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

p. 1

> Where this area had been beautiful with its many trees and bright grass and the colored blooms of the vines that covered the trees, it was now like a battlefield. It had been necessary to create ugliness to build a beautiful boat.

p. 87

> His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.

p. 158

> Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.

p. 34

> He was stiff and sometimes a little strange, which was what you’d expect from an engineer, but he had a moral backbone as inflexible as a fossilized dinosaur’s.

p. 168

> I ought to arrest your assertions for vagrancy. They certainly are without any visible support.

p. 160

> But we may not be able to climb high enough. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

p. 44

> It was not that he was unintelligent. It was just that he was not emotionally able to comprehend democracy.

p. 119