# R. A. Lafferty - Quotes: 69 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty ## Books - [Past Master](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/past-master.md) — 3 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Carr states that the characters of the Brunhilde are not true archetypes. Why, then they are false archetypes, and these also have their being. Kidd believes that X himself is in the process of becoming the Third Evil to fill the void left by the insufficiency of Papadiabolous and Seaworthy in the roles of devils. But Kidd is Joycean. To complicate matters, Lafferty swears that Finnegan is in no way Joycean, that he is nine hundred years earlier, out of the Yellow Book of Lecan (the Tain Bo Cuailinge), a character out of the Tain. This presupposes that Finnegan is identical with Fion McCool as well as with the more derivative Fingal, and also with Cu Chulainn. Well, Finnegan is capable of being all. To those interested in this line I recommend Thurneysen’s Die Irische Helden- und Konigsage. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead/carr-states-that.md) > Brannagan had been to more places than Finnegan had, including the same places. He had not only skirted the d'Entre-Casteau Islands, he had walked all over them. He had not only sailed through China Straits, he had dived in them for old wrecks. He had not only climbed the Cloudy Mountains, but had panned gold in their streams and dips. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead/brannagan-had-been.md) > Oh, come along, reader of the High Journal; if you do not love words, how will you love the communication? How will you forgive me my tropes, communicate the love? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine/oh-come-along.md) > True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine/true-love-is-that.md) > "Oh, I cannot abide these complacent clods," I exclaim. "I cannot relate to these opulent oafs who are laughing in the streets. They are not high enough or low enough. For my love I must find the poor, the deprived, the fornicators, the addicts, the drunkards, the unwashed, ..." > > "Oh, these are the poor," the clod told me. "This is the poorest street in town, Index Y-Z. It's hard to tell them apart now except that the poor spend more ostentatiously than the rich do." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine/oh-i-cannot.md) > Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead/put-the-nightmare.md) > Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin — that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine/gaetan-had-always.md) > When you can't depend on the Devil, who can you depend on? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead/when-you-cant.md) > In this growing there are no really new things or new situations. There are only things growing out right, or things growing out deformed or shriveled. There is nothing new about railways or foundries or lathes or steel furnaces. They also are green-growing things. There is nothing new about organizations of men or of money. All these growing things are good, if they grow towards the final answers that were given in the beginning. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-flame-is-green/in-this-growing.md) > ‎Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —" [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-reefs-of-earth/sometimes-traveling-people.md) > "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?" [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/fourth-mansions/a-newspaper-man.md) > Beware of those who manufacture final answers as they go along, of those who will catch you on their catch-phrases and let you perish in the traps. All the final answers were given in the beginning. They stand shining, above and beyond us, but they are always there to be seen. They may be too bright for us, they may be too clear for us. Well then, we must clarify our own eyes. Our task is to grow out until we reach them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-flame-is-green/beware-of-those.md)