# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

> “No matter who I ask, they answer out of the Dicta! Even when it doesn’t fit.”
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> “Doing such is not a new thing. In the former world, there were people who said all truth was contained in this or that holy book, this or that holy image, these or those holy beliefs. No matter how complicated their world became, no matter how much it changed, the only answers permitted were those that grew ever more tortuous and convoluted.”
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> “Until?”
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> “Until, some say, God turned his back on them for their failure to use the minds they had been given.”

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [The Visitor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor.md)
- Page: 75
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#The_Visitor_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/no-matter-who

## More from this book

> Long ago, the people of the world cried out for help. In the reaches of heaven their cry was heard, and a Visitor came in answer to it. The Visitor began helping immediately, but secretly. Now the visitor intends to be known to the people of the world and the people of the world must deal with that knowledge.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/long-ago-the.md)

> “I know so little,” she murmured.
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> “Better admit you are up to your neck in ignorance than stand upon a pinnacle of misinformation,” he said firmly.

p. 258 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/i-know-so-little.md)

> Many men of importance were gathered there to be seen talking with other men of importance, resulting in an abundance of conspicuous but immaterial discourse.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/many-men-of-importance.md)