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Quotes from The Wanderer — Fritz Leiber

1910–1992 United States

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12 quotes

They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.

The Wanderer (1964)

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

The Wanderer (1964)

Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.

The Wanderer (1964)

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

The Wanderer (1964)

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 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)

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

The Wanderer (1964)

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

The Wanderer (1964)

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

The Wanderer (1964)

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That’s why they’re the gods! I told you they were devils.

The Wanderer (1964)

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

The Wanderer (1964)

Attribution

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