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Karl Schroeder Quotes

born 1962 Canada

Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is a Canadian science fiction author.

Canada
Novelists
Short story writers

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22 quotes

That’s what being human means: to be master of your own fate.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

But what good's abundance if nobody can experience it?

Lady of Mazes (2005)

The richest billionaire has to realize that the gods next door take no more notice of him than he would a bug.

Ventus (2000)

“Something’s wrong.”
Axel shrugged. “That statement probably applies to every second I’ve spent on this blasted world.”

Ventus (2000)

“All sound is music,” he had said, “and there is no place without sound.”

Ventus (2000)

Her own sincerity returned to her now like the remembrance of a crime.

Ventus (2000)

Only the dead are free of the influence of others.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

What’s real is what’s valuable. Everything else is just an illusion.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

She looked up at the towering wisdom and felt a sudden love for it—as if these books were family.

Ventus (2000)

In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

“The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,” said Charon. “If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.”

Lady of Mazes (2005)

Just because something is convincing, that does not make it true. It is merely convincing.

Ventus (2000)

She started threatening the stability of the ruling classes, at least in their own eyes. No ruler who does that ever stands for long.

Ventus (2000)

The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

“It’s not that simple.”
“Ah! That phrase is Male for ‘I’m afraid to.’”

Ventus (2000)

Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

Even the gods fight boredom in vain.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

“I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.”
“As listeners, we are not required to understand,” said Qiingi. “Only to care.”

Lady of Mazes (2005)

“We’re all pretending; that’s what events like this are all about.”
“Why are we doing it at all?”
“To fit it. Better that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.”

Ventus (2000)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.
Fermi Paradox innovations: Graph theory to the rescue, December 2011: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature".

Attribution

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