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You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
Gene Wolfe
Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.
Gene Wolfe
People don't want other people to be people.
Gene Wolfe
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
Gene Wolfe
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
Gene Wolfe
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
Gene Wolfe
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene Wolfe
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
Gene Wolfe
There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
Gene Wolfe
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
Gene Wolfe
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
Gene Wolfe
Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
Gene Wolfe
People who wish to be lost always get their way.
Gene Wolfe
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe
Be careful about extending credit, too, and doubly careful about refusing to extend it.
Gene Wolfe
Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.
Gene Wolfe
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
Gene Wolfe
Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.
Gene Wolfe
Nobody bothers crazy people. [...] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.
Gene Wolfe
If you rob someone who would help you if you needed help you only rob yourself. [...] Do you imagine you can be cruel without teaching others to be cruel to you?
Gene Wolfe
We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.
Gene Wolfe
You have a walking stick. Suppose it could walk by itself, and that it chose to walk away from you. [...] It would no longer be a walking stick at all, only a stick that walked.
Gene Wolfe
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