Frases de Walter M. Miller
página 2

Walter Michael Miller, Jr. foi um escritor norte-americano de ficção científica.

✵ 23. Janeiro 1923 – 9. Janeiro 1996

Walter M. Miller: 37 citações0 Curtidas

Walter M. Miller: Frases em inglês

“Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert.
Never before had Brother Francis actually seen a pilgrim with girded loins, but that this one was the bona fide article he was convinced as soon as he had recovered from the spine-chilling effect of the pilgrim's advent on the far horizon, as a wiggling iota of black caught in a shimmering haze of heat.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 1 (First lines).
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 29
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua

“From the lightning and the tempest,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the scourge of the earthquake,
O Lord, deliver us.
From plague, famine, and war,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the place of ground zero,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the cobalt,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the strontium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the fall of the cesium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Fallout,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the begetting of monsters,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Misborn,
O Lord deliver us.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 2
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo

“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I see it.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 20
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux

“The Simplification had ceased to have plan or purpose soon after it began, and became an insane frenzy of mass murder and destruction such as can occur only when the last traces of social order are gone. The madness was transmitted to the children, taught as they were — not merely to forget — but to hate, and surges of mob fury recurred sporadically even through the fourth generation after the Deluge. By then, the fury was directed not against the learned, for there were none, but against the merely literate.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 6
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo

“One never knows whether the Poet is speaking fact, fancy, or allegory. If fancy is clever enough, I doubt that the Poet would admit a difference between fancy and fact.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 21
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux

“When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.”

Help us translate this quote

Walter M. Miller, Jr. livro A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 28
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua