Harry Turtledove Quotes

born 1949 United States

Harry Norman Turtledove (born 14 June 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his works in several genres, including that of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Also known as: Turtledove, Harry

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He thought she was the most wonderful woman in the world. Of course he did—she agreed with him.

Opening of the World (2007)

Women are what made me the way I am now. I do not believe the illness is also the cure.

Opening of the World (2007)

Hamnet Thyssen wondered if Witigis was a holy man or simply a madman. His vacant features didn’t promise much in the way of brains.

Opening of the World (2007)

Believe worked well enough when a man could not measure it against facts. But when he could…Facts crushed to belief like a mammoth crushing a vole.

Opening of the World (2007)

Flora wasn’t sure she liked that in the abstract; whom a man knew shouldn’t have mattered so much as what he knew. But that didn’t change reality one bit.

Southern Victory (1997)

An army that was winning had little backbiting. When things went wrong, everyone was at pains to prove the misfortune could not possibly have been his fault.

Southern Victory (1997)

His eyes were black and shiny; he had somehow the air of a man who saw things no one else did. Whether those things were actually there, Argyros was not sure.

Agent of Byzantium (1987)

Like a man who’d sweet-talked a girl into bed with him, Sergeant Pound cared little about the whys and wherefores. All he cared about was that it had happened.

Southern Victory (1997)

Don’t be dumber than you can help, all right? If you reckon you’re the only one in the world with troubles, what does that make you? Besides a damn fool, I mean?

Southern Victory (1997)

“You make me wonder about my own country, Spartacus, not just yours.”
“Good,” the black man rumbled. “Wonderin’s good. Ain’t nothin’ gonna change till you wonder if it oughta.”

Southern Victory (1997)

"I'm Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth."

He’s had less use for me outside the bedchamber since I stopped telling him things he wanted to hear.

Agent of Byzantium (1987)

We must deal with life as it is, not with life as we wish it were or as it may be ten years or fifty years from now.

Southern Victory (1997)

Soldiers don’t make policy. We only carry it out, and get blamed when it goes wrong.

Southern Victory (1997)

Anyone who forces something on someone and then says he will be better for it—you will, I hope, understand me when I say this is difficult to appreciate.

Southern Victory (1997)

“He lies. How can you trust a man who lies? You cannot. And any man who comes on the wireless and says, ‘I am going to tell you the truth’—well, what else can he be except a liar?”

Southern Victory (1997)

A rocket can’t be that accurate…can it? But that’s only a wild-ass guess—excuse the technical term.

Southern Victory (1997)

He rode forward at the gallop, brave but stupid. A moment later, he was brave and stupid and dead.

Southern Victory (1997)

You volunteered for this, Cincinnatus reminded himself. Were you born stupid, or did you have to study?

Southern Victory (1997)

Morrell laughed out loud. There went one cliché, shot down like a dive bomber with a fighter on its tail.

Southern Victory (1997)

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