Frases de John Varley

John Herbert Varley é um escritor estadunidense de ficção científica, vencedor do Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Seiun Award e Prometheus Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Agosto 1947
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“They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances.”

"The Persistence of Vision", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March 1978), reprinted as the title story in The Persistence of Vision (1978)

“I had kept a straight face under worse provocation, so I trust I did well enough then.”

"Press Enter", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (May 1984)

“It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living.”

John Varley livro The Ophiuchi Hotline

Fonte: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 14 (p. 141)

“I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.”

John Varley livro The Ophiuchi Hotline

Fonte: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 23 (p. 210)

“Buildings were just the world's furniture, and he didn't care how it was arranged.”

John Varley livro The Pusher

"The Pusher", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October 1981), reprinted in The John Varley Reader (2005)

“Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless.”

"The Phantom of Kansas" (1976), The World Treasury of Science Fiction (ed. David Hartwell), p. 375

“This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases.”

John Varley livro The Ophiuchi Hotline

Fonte: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 2 (p. 23)

“But now she was fifty-seven, and suddenly ancient. Soon she would be dead. Dead. You can’t get any more ancient than that.”

John Varley livro The Ophiuchi Hotline

Fonte: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

“If only she could convince them, perhaps she could convince herself.”

John Varley livro The Ophiuchi Hotline

Fonte: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 89)

“I’m decrepit, but I ain’t senile.”

John Varley livro The Barbie Murders

"Picnic on Nearside", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1974), reprinted in Peter Crowther ed. Tales in Space, p. 283