C. L. Moore Quotes
1911–1987 United States
Catherine Lucille Moore (24 January 1911 – 4 April 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, usually credited as C. L.
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Also known as: Catherine Lucille Moore
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There’s no such thing as a theatrical troupe without conflicts.
Doomsday Morning (1957)
Only fools offend me, woman, and they but once.
Jirel of Joiry (1969)
Nothing I have ever written was given the slightest deliberation. It was there in the typewriter and it came out, a total bypassing of the brain.
And not until then did she remember how fatal it is said to be to accept a gift from a demon. Buy, or earn it, but never accept the gift.
Jirel of Joiry (1969)
When you’re young you never doubt yourself. You never wonder if you’re justified. But as a man gets older he learns to doubt. Whether he can do a thing—whether he should.
Doomsday Morning (1957)
She turned her face up to the strange stars and wondered in what direction her course lay. The sky looked blankly down upon her with its myriad meaningless eyes.
Jirel of Joiry (1969)
The stone walls were incised with those inevitable, mysterious symbols which have become nothing more than queer designs now, though a million years ago they bore deep significance.
Northwest of Earth (1954)
Beauty is as tangible as blood, in a way. It is a separate, distinct force that inhabits the bodies of men and women. You must have noticed the vacuity that accompanies perfect beauty in so many women...the force so strong that it drives out all other forces and lives vampirishly at the expense of intelligence and goodness and conscience and all else.
Northwest of Earth (1954)
All about her, as suddenly as the awakening from a dream, the nothingness had opened out into undreamed-of distances. She stood high on a hilltop under a sky spangled with strange stars. Below she caught glimpses of misty plains and valleys with mountain peaks rising far away. And at her feet a ravening circle of small, slavering, blind things leaped with clashing teeth.
Jirel of Joiry (1969)