If I have to play your stupid games, at least I don’t have to pretend to enjoy them.
Michael Swanwick Quotes
born 1950 United States
Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
- United States
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- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
79 quotes
Our records must be scrupulous, whether they show what we want them to show or not.
Jack Faust (1997)
Stations of the Tide (1991)
“I can’t figure you out.”
“You’re not supposed to.”
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Tyranny always has its rationale.
Stations of the Tide (1991)
Everybody dies. So much of growing up consists of coming to grips with this fact.
Bones of the Earth (2002)
Bones of the Earth (2002)
Bones of the Earth (2002)
It pained him to think how naive he had once been.
Jack Faust (1997)
Still, it was no easy thing to flirt in German.
Jack Faust (1997)
Bones of the Earth (2002)
The loyalty of the systematically betrayed. Is there anything sadder?
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Bones of the Earth (2002)
Violence is the left hand of government.
It was a terrible blessing she’d been given, to see herself the way everybody else did.
Bones of the Earth (2002)
They were not aware of the madness that lurked within their own minds.
Jack Faust (1997)
There was so much going on, and so little he cared to know about!
Jack Faust (1997)
Stations of the Tide (1991)
We had ambition, and ascended into Hell.
Vacuum Flowers (1987)
I’m a politician. I agree with the majority of whoever I happen to be with at the moment.
In the Drift (1985)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Swanwick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.