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Fritz Leiber was an American writer renowned for his contributions to fantasy, horror, and science fiction literature. His works, including the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, have had a lasting influence on modern speculative fiction. He helped shape the sword and sorcery subgenre and is celebrated for his imaginative storytelling. Here are 91 of his quotes:
Conscience is only social pressure,” he told her, tense without quite knowing why, "the impulse to submerge your ego in that of the herd, and do what other people want you to because you're afraid of their censure. Realistic self-interest frees a person from the childish restrictions of conscience.”
"Are you sure of that, Jarles? What about your dreams? Conscience may be partly what you say it is, but it's more than that. It's hearkening to the wisest thoughts that have occurred to the minds of the human race.
Fritz Leiber
The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but-doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things-they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.
Fritz Leiber
"Tire Devourers want only to amass cash and to raise little ones like themselves to amass more cash and they want to compete with each other at cash-amassing. And the Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes - it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods -and to complain about how the work of amassing cash torture their mind and frustrating their digestions. Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or this is their ultimate preference-with nothing at all.
Fritz Leiber
What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.
Fritz Leiber
The Devourers are the most accomplished merchants in all the many universes - so accomplished, indeed, that they sell only trash. There is a deep necessity in this, for the Devourers must occupy all their cunning in perfecting their methods of selling and so have not an instant to spare in considering the worth of what they sell.
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber
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Occupation: American Writer
Born: December 24, 1910
Died: September 5, 1992
Quotes count: 91
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