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Quotes from The Fabulous Riverboat — Philip José Farmer

1918–2009 United States

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13 quotes

Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

I ought to arrest your assertions for vagrancy. They certainly are without any visible support.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Styles was an old Mississippi pilot, a handsome youth, no liar, though given to inflating facts.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

But we may not be able to climb high enough. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

He was stiff and sometimes a little strange, which was what you’d expect from an engineer, but he had a moral backbone as inflexible as a fossilized dinosaur’s.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

It was not that he was unintelligent. It was just that he was not emotionally able to comprehend democracy.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Where this area had been beautiful with its many trees and bright grass and the colored blooms of the vines that covered the trees, it was now like a battlefield. It had been necessary to create ugliness to build a beautiful boat.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip José Farmer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.