Frases de Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Junior foi um escritor de fantástico, ficção científica e horror estadunidense. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Dezembro 1910 – 5. Setembro 1992
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Fritz Leiber: Frases em inglês

“You have been told that the Great God rules the universe—earth and sky. I tell you the Great God is fake!”

Fritz Leiber livro Gather, Darkness!

Fonte: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 1 (p. 8)

“What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science?”

Fritz Leiber livro Conjure Wife

Fonte: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 26).
Contexto: 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.

“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”

Fritz Leiber livro The Wanderer

Fonte: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Contexto: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.

“There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.”

Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Fonte: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 240)

“He had the illusion, he said, of getting perilously close to the innermost secrets of the universe and finding they were rotten and evil and sardonic.”

“The Dreams of Albert Moreland” (p. 182); originally published in The Acolyte, #10, Spring 1945
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

“It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.”

Fritz Leiber livro The Wanderer

Fonte: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 26).

“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”

Fritz Leiber livro Our Lady of Darkness

“All of us.”
Fonte: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)

“I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.”

Fritz Leiber livro Our Lady of Darkness

Fonte: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)

“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”

Fritz Leiber livro The Wanderer

Fonte: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3.

“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”

Fritz Leiber livro The Wanderer

Fonte: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 33).

“I’ve never found anything in occult literature that seemed to have a bearing. You know, the occult—very much like stories of supernatural horror—is a sort of game. Most religions, too. Believe in the game and accept its rules—or the premises of the story—and you can have the thrills or whatever it is you’re after. Accept the spirit world and you can see ghosts and talk to the dear departed. Accept Heaven and you can have the hope of eternal life and the reassurance of an all-powerful god working on your side. Accept Hell and you can have devils and demons, if that’s what you want. Accept—if only for story purposes—witchcraft, druidism, shamanism, magic or some modern variant and you can have werewolves, vampires, elementals. Or believe in the influence and power of a grave, an ancient house or monument, a dead religion, or an old stone with an inscription on it—and you can have inner things of the same general sort. But I’m thinking of the kind of horror—and wonder too, perhaps—that lies beyond any game, that’s bigger than any game, that’s fettered by no rules, conforms to no man-made theology, bows to no charms or protective rituals, that strides the world unseen and strikes without warning where it will, much the same as (though it’s of a different order of existence than all of these) lightning or the plague or the enemy atom bomb. The sort of horror that the whole fabric of civilization was designed to protect us from and make us forget. The horror about which all man’s learning tells us nothing.”

“A Bit of the Dark World” (pp. 261-262); originally published in Fantastic, February 1962
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

“The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.”

Fritz Leiber livro The Wanderer

Fonte: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).

“Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.”

Fritz Leiber livro Our Lady of Darkness

Fonte: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 8 (p. 43)