Tarnsman of Gor Quotes

“wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“She danced before me for several minutes, her scarlet dancing silks flashing in the firelight, her bare feet, with their belled ankles, striking softly on the carpet. With a last flash of the finger cymbals, she fell to the carpet before me, her breath hot and quick, her eyes blazing with desire. I was at her side, and she was in my arms. Her heart beat wildly against my breast. She looked into my eyes, her lips trembling, the words stumbling but audible. "Call for the iron," she said. "Brand me, Master." "No, Talena," I said, kissing her mouth. "No." "I want to be owned," she whimpered. "I want to belong to you, fully, completely in every way. I want your brand, Tarl of Bristol, don't you understand? I want to be your branded slave." I fumbled with the collar at her throat, unlocked it, threw it aside. "You're free, my love," I whispered. "Always free." She sobbed, shaking her head, her lashes wet with tears. "No," she wept. "I am your slave." She clenched her body against mine, the buckles of the wide tharlarion belt cutting into her belly. "You own me," she whispered. "Use me.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“Slowly, with agony, I began to believe that it had indeed been nothing but the cruelest of dreams and that I was now once again coming to my senses.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“some of the boldest even contending that the social function of the Initiates is to keep the lower castes contented with their servile lot.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“I wanted to hate her—so much I wanted to hate her—but I found that I could not. I had come to love her.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“This practice, as once in England, is more than a simple matter of convention. When one keeps to the left side of the road, one's sword arm faces the passing stranger.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view,”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“I realized, with an incomprehensible suddenness and a joy that still bewilders me, that someone existed who loved me.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“the deplorable subject of physical education.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor