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Quotes from Grass — Sheri S. Tepper

1929–2016 United States

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19 quotes

If God is truly powerful, He would not let this plague go on.

Grass (1989)

History upon Terra tells us what horrors follow upon religious mandates of unlimited reproduction.

Grass (1989)

They haven’t learned that being penitent sometimes does no good at all.

Grass (1989)

All kids think some other family is perfect.

Grass (1989)

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)

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)

Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!

Grass (1989)

All men believed they had their own magics in bed.

Grass (1989)

Eugenie thought of this often. Men had told her many sweet things about herself, but never before that she was important. It was the nicest compliment she had ever received.

Grass (1989)

Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.

Grass (1989)

He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.

Grass (1989)

Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!

Grass (1989)

Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.

Grass (1989)

She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.

Grass (1989)

They see things; they overhear things; they tell us. We put two and two together to make forty-four, when we must.

Grass (1989)

Useless as a third leg on a goose.

Grass (1989)

“Not hunting today, sir?” asked Tony in his most innocent voice, busy putting two and two together but not sure how he felt about the resultant sum.

Grass (1989)

Too good is good for nothing.

Grass (1989)

The first thing you’ve got to do is tell yourself that the shitheads are wrong...Not just a little bit wrong, but irremediably, absolutely, and endemically wrong. Nothing you can say or do will stop their being wrong. They’re damned to eternal wrongness, and that’s God’s will.

Grass (1989)

Attribution

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