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John C. Wright Quotes

born 1961 United States

John Charles Justin Wright (born October 22, 1961) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels.

United States
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Unliving things have no passions, and no memory: mere matter is the amnesia of the universe.

The Far End of History (2009)

Everyone loses in war, even the winners.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

Merlin and Solomon can tell you how well the wise and learned can withstand the foolishness of love!

Titans of Chaos (2007)

You have reached that unfortunate age where you have all of life’s answers and you know everything more perfectly and more profoundly than your elders.

Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

Need I say that, if the universe is destroyed, it is unlikely that the British Isles will be preserved?

Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

I will grant you three wishes, but do not ask for immortality without asking for eternal youth.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

It is amazing how well the worst ones think of themselves, and how little the best ones do.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

There is no magic, only mysteries explained, and mysteries unexplained.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

Those who work are free. There are only three categories of nonproductive people: babies, beggars, robbers.

Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

Sometimes the best in people comes out during emergencies. Sometimes not.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

Were I a real master of intrigue, I would not have the reputation for being a master of intrigue.

Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

You all think I am a coward, when all I am is polite.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

Warlocks are something like doctors, I guess. No matter how much you like them personally, there is quite a bit of nasty mess involved in their line of work.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

Women are supposed to domesticate men. List the countries where they treat women like dirt, and then list the crude, warlike, and brutal countries. Same list, yes?

Titans of Chaos (2007)

It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

This world, this human earth, this dirty spot within heavenly sphere, is is overwhelmed by all the bloodshed and pollutions of men, their stinking lusts, their cities a-drip with oil, their battlefields with carrion.

Titans of Chaos (2007)

I cannot describe myself except to say that I am either very vain or very beautiful, and that I hope I am the latter, while suspecting I may be the former.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

There was no point in debating the advantages of reality over unreality. There was no reasoning with someone to whom truth was a matter of taste.

The Far End of History (2009)

Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.

Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John C. Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.