Andrew J. Offutt Quotes
1934–2013 United States
Andrew J. Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and erotic fiction author.
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To call her a strange woman would be to say that Einstein was a bright fellow.
Ardor on Aros (1973)
“How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”
Ardor on Aros (1973)
In a “barbarian” society (or in any society, in wartime), the conquerors naturally rape ever woman in sight. Not even the stern old lonely god of the children of Abraham frowned on that practice!
Ardor on Aros (1973)
He’d heard it said: Nature was the original and greatest sorcerer or sorceress of all.
I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder.
Ardor on Aros (1973)
I’d have been better off of course, just to have gone along, to have accepted. But as I have pointed out I am not built that way. I kept asking why.
Ardor on Aros (1973)
He gave them a sardonic grin, the old wicked look they knew he cultivated. “In case the luck of Berneson ends right now, it’s been sheer boredom knowing you two.”
The Galactic Rejects (1973)
It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip it. You don’t need me to tell you that those of us who worked and paid taxes were slaves to those who didn’t.
Ardor on Aros (1973)
He was that kind of man; every now and then you meet a person who is real, who exists as he is rather than within and behind a mask or three, and within a few minutes you’ve been old friends for twenty years.
Ardor on Aros (1973)