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Quotes from A Pail of Air — Fritz Leiber

1910–1992 United States

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Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!

A Pail of Air (1964)

To understand why George fell for this story, one must remember his stifled romanticism, his sense of personal failure, his deep need to believe. The thing came to him like, or rather instead of, a religious conversion.

A Pail of Air (1964)

“You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. “It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics—or else it creates them.”

A Pail of Air (1964)

Attribution

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