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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis, conhecida como Connie Willis, é uma escritora estadunidense de ficção científica e uma das mais prestigiadas e premiadas escritoras do gênero. Ganhou onze Prêmios Hugo e sete Prêmios Nebula.Foi incluída no Hall da Fama da Ficção Científica em 2009 e foi nomeada pela Science Fiction Writers of America para o prêmio Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master em 2011. Wikipedia

✵ 31. Dezembro 1945 • Outros nomes کانی ویلیس, 康妮·威利斯

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Connie Willis: 39 citações0 Curtidas

Connie Willis: Frases em inglês

“It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.”

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Connie Willis livro Doomsday Book

Fonte: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 506)

“That makes no sense,” I said.
“This is the Victorian era,” she said. “Women didn’t have to make sense.”

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Connie Willis livro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fonte: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 17 (p. 297)

“It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick’s Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.”

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Connie Willis livro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fonte: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 18 (p. 318)

“Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fonte: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 117)

“If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?”

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Connie Willis livro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fonte: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 28 (p. 479)

“Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.”

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Connie Willis livro Doomsday Book

Fonte: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)

“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?”

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Connie Willis livro Doomsday Book

Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Fonte: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“One of the greatest difficulties I encounter in my research is that people want to believe that their dreams mean something, but all the research I’m doing seems to indicate just the opposite.”

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Connie Willis livro Lincoln's Dreams

Fonte: Lincoln's Dreams (1987), Chapter 4 (pp. 57-58)

“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”

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Fonte: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)