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Steven Barnes Quotes

born 1952 United States

Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.

United States
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15 quotes

Lesbianism is the ultimate expression of a feminist philosophy.

Gorgon Child (1989)

Truth could not be spawned in lies and deceit.

Gorgon Child (1989)

It would have been a terrible thing to die a fool and a liar. Truth, at any cost, is worth the price.

Gorgon Child (1989)

Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap.

Street Lethal (1983)

“Chicken?”
“Don’t want my feathers ruffled, it that’s what you mean.”

Street Lethal (1983)

I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed.

Street Lethal (1983)

Definitions are just words, just labels. And once you label something, the label gets between you and the thing.

Street Lethal (1983)

Marketing is finding women who like sex or would like to find out if they do. Sales is convincing them that they want to go home with YOU, right NOW.

Fifty Shades of Grays (2016)

The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.

Street Lethal (1983)

The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do.

Street Lethal (1983)

And your life is ruined because you tried to do the Right Thing. Join the club honey—guess what, there are a few more of us out here who’ve had our brains beaten our with our own dreams.

Street Lethal (1983)

He had no choice. And that one thing turned Heaven into Hell.

Gorgon Child (1989)

No man escapes Death. So Death must not be the enemy. Life must not be the prize. It must be the gameboard, on which Death teaches its savage lessons. You could heed those lessons, or ignore them, but never evade them.
Death, then, was the ally. Not to be sought, but heeded.

Gorgon Child (1989)

Aubry looked at her without shifting his head. Damn, she was lovely. An unpleasant question remained: What where they to each other? It was hard to say sometimes. Did he truly feel love, or just the effects of the Cyloxibin mushroom? And was there a difference?

Gorgon Child (1989)

“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.”

Street Lethal (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Barnes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.