Philip José Farmer

Quotes

1. The world took a shape which he could grasp, though he could not comprehend it. Above him, on both sides, below him, as far as he could see, bodies floated. They were arranged in vertical and horizontal rows. The up-and-down ranks were separated by red rods, slender as broomsticks, one of which was twelve inches from the feet of the sleepers and the other twelve inches from their heads. Each body was spaced about six feet from the body above and below and on each side.

   The rods came up from an abyss without bottom and soared into an abyss without ceiling. That grayness into which the rods and the bodies, up and down, right and left, disappeared was neither the sky nor the earth. There was nothing in the distance except the lackluster of infinity.

   p. 3

2. 

   Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had arrived at last.

   Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his heart had given out forever. Nothingness.

   Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly. He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were gone.

   It was so quiet he could hear the blood moving in his head. He was alone in a world of soundlessness.

   A bright light of equal intensity was everywhere. He could see, yet he did not understand what he was seeing. What were these things above, beside, below him? Where was he?

   p. 1

3. 

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

   p. 160

4. 

   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

5. 

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

   p. 119

6. 

   The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did not even think about his pun. No visible means of support. Like a magical vessel out of The Thousand and One Nights.

   p. 5

7. 

   “Would you like to talk?”

   “When I dream, I am talking.”

   “But to yourself.”

   “Who knows me better?” He laughed softly.

   “And who can deceive you better,” she said a little tartly.

   p. 10

8. 

   “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.”

   p. 54

9. 

   Many attributed this to a supernatural agency. Many more, among whom was Burton, did not think that there was any agency except an advanced science which accounted for this. There was no need to call in the supernatural. “No ghosts need apply,”—to quote the immortal Sherlock Holmes. Physical explanations sufficed.

   p. 19

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