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1910–1992 United States

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction.

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Also known as: Leiber, Fritz

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The worst thing about mountain climbing is that the easy parts go so quickly.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

The more brilliant the enchanted male, the stupider the enchanting female.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

Night's Black Agents (1947)

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

Conjure Wife (1953)

No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural.

Gather, Darkness! (1950)

When one achieves revenge, the innocent perforce suffer.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Aye, we played at being mice, forgetting cats are real.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.

Conjure Wife (1953)

Great conquerors live on as their enemies’ devils.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

“You have been told that the Great God rules the universe—earth and sky. I tell you the Great God is fake!”

Gather, Darkness! (1950)

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.

The Wanderer (1964)

The Seven Subjects of Sensational Journalism: crime, scandal, speculative science, insanity, superstitions such as numerology, monsters, and millionaires.

A Rite of Spring (1977)

Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.

Our Lady of Darkness (1977)

But now the priests think only one thing. How to hold on to their power as long as mankind lasts—until the sun darkens and the earth freezes!

Gather, Darkness! (1950)

“What’s the use of knowing the name of a skull? One would never have occasion to talk of it,” said the fat thief loudly. “What interests me is that it has rubies for eyes.”

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

And just think what rare delights—nay, what whole sets of ecstasies and blisses—this much gold would buy. How fortunate that metal was mindless slave of the man who held it!

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

They, like many priests, had been much too fanatical and not nearly as clever as the god they served.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.

The Wanderer (1964)

It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.

The Wanderer (1964)

We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fritz Leiber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.