Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

1929–2016 United States

Sheri Stewart Tepper (16 July 1929 - 22 October 2016) was a prolific author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels, frequently with a feminist slant. She wrote under several pseudonyms, including A.

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Personal beliefs are unarguable, even if the other side has all the facts.

The Visitor (2002)

It is far more important to establish a civil and orderly society than it is to pander to abusive cultural and religious artifacts.

The Fresco (2000)

The use of destructive, noisy machinery for recreational purposes must become anathema to humans, as unthinkable as eating one’s young.

The Margarets (2007)

The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust.

The Fresco (2000)

The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.

The Margarets (2007)

I have noticed that cats are little impressed by religion.

Beauty (1991)

Ideas oozed out of books like magma out of volcanoes.

The Margarets (2007)

One hates to think that all of existence is trivial.

Jinian Star-Eye (1986)

All kids think some other family is perfect.

Grass (1989)

She needed more sleep and less aggravation.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

The poor are like foxes: they need intelligence in order to survive. The rich, however, have power; they don’t need good sense.

Singer from the Sea (1999)

Madame says when we focus on our anger, our vision begins to constrict. Soon we are caught up in fury, and we turn it upon everyone.

Six Moon Dance (1998)

I reflected that a little taste of power could take a reasonably sensible person and make some kind of groveling, cringing thing of him.

Wizard's Eleven (1984)

I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.

Grass (1989)

Even our earliest espousers of human rights limit them to life, liberty, and the pursuit of satisfactions. They do not guarantee posterity or immortality.

Six Moon Dance (1998)

Also, the god often resembles his followers in behavior and feelings. Angry people have angry gods and vindictive people have vindictive gods, and so forth.

Shadow's End (1994)

They parade their cruelty openly, calling it diplomacy, calling it expediency, as governments always have.

Sideshow (1992)

There’s some who say magic came from nature, and with men destroying nature right and left, there’s not enough of it left.

Beauty (1991)

Meanwhile they discussed What It All Meant, some considering the sign a threat and others a blessing, each according to his nature.

The Visitor (2002)

To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.

Grass (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheri S. Tepper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.