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“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense stature in some unremunerated field, the strategy and theory of some sport or the practice of some craft, have had an exhaustive knowledge of old circus posters or eighteenth-century inn signs or the mathematics of comets; and nothing so distinguished Professor Peacock from the ruck of men as his air of amateurishness.”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“(Have you never thought as you read that months may lie between any pair of words?)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be “nice.”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“our lives couldn’t be viewed with detachment until they were half forgotten, like paintings which can be seen objectively only when the artists are long dead,”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Wizard