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Quotes from Space Chantey — R. A. Lafferty

1914–2002 United States

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49 quotes

This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.

Space Chantey (1968)

I tried to tell you, but words will not convey it. One has to be inside it to comprehend the magnitude.

Space Chantey (1968)

All matter can be modified as long as it is kept subjective. Let us keep it so.

Space Chantey (1968)

He was their leader because he was a man on whom the blinding light sometimes descended.

Space Chantey (1968)

Be you not toys any longer! Stir up the wild business in you. You have to be real animals before you can be men.

Space Chantey (1968)

Put away those damned sophisticated tools and get my stone hammers. That's when I build the good stuff.

Space Chantey (1968)

I've had enough of this place where they stuff you full of bull and then hunt you down and kill you every day.

Space Chantey (1968)

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

Space Chantey (1968)

I say you are men and not sheep. I say: Arise and be men indeed!

Space Chantey (1968)

Roadstrum had a way of putting it on a little thick himself.

Space Chantey (1968)

It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once.

Space Chantey (1968)

We will quickly measure you one way or another. We have no living ex-members.

Space Chantey (1968)

Roadstrum had always believed that he had troubles enough of his own. He seldom borrowed trouble, and never on usurious terms.

Space Chantey (1968)

These men were the salt of the skies, the one out of ten who had determinedly stayed alive through the whole war, very often hurt, absolutely refusing to be killed.

Space Chantey (1968)

I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.

Space Chantey (1968)

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

Space Chantey (1968)

It did not prove a point, since all points had long ago been proven. What it did, perhaps, was to emphasize an aspect, sharpen a concept, underline a trend.

Space Chantey (1968)

It was the most exclusive club in the world, in all the worlds, and this is a mighty pale statement to make about it. Let us emphasize that it was hard to get into.

Space Chantey (1968)

The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms. Roadstrum put it back in his pocket and once more contemplated his good fortune.

Space Chantey (1968)

When he had been a man he had always known when it was time for action; particularly he had always known the last moment when action was still possible. He knew now that that moment was come very near.

Space Chantey (1968)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: R. A. Lafferty (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.