Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.
Michael Bishop Quotes
1945–2023 United States
Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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22 quotes
No Enemy But Time (1982)
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
His foot always got caught in that wide, loose stirrup: his mouth.
Old Folks at Home (1978)
You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.
No Enemy But Time (1982)
Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Like all such prophecies, it’s impressive only if not examined too closely.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.
No Enemy But Time (1982)
Outside the rain continued its cadenced and indifferent commentary.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Who but a madman would grapple with mountains?
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.
No Enemy But Time (1982)
What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Time, as it always does, passed.
No Enemy But Time (1982)
What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Coercion is the tool of the desperate.
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
Paleoanthropologists were congenitally media-oriented.
No Enemy But Time (1982)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Bishop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.