Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

• Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

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  Thinking, Punishment, Deities

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Looks

  Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “The Visitor”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

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  Soul, Immortal, Ifs

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• [Los adoradores de las Escrituras anteponen los escritos a Dios. En lugar de interpretar las acciones de Dios en la naturaleza, por ejemplo, interpretan la naturaleza a la luz de las Escrituras. La naturaleza dice que la roca tiene miles de millones de años, pero el libro dice otra cosa, así que aunque los hombres escribieron el libro, y Dios hizo la roca y Dios nos dio mentes que han encontrado formas de decir cuántos años tiene, seguimos eligiendo creer en la Escritura.

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  Creer, Libro, Escribir

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• The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

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  Littles, Necks, Maidens

  Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “Beauty”, p.10, Spectra

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

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  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

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  Important, Goes On, World

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus magazine, September 1998.

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• Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

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  Kindness, Evil, Justice

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

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  Believe, Men, Vision

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “King's Blood Four”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• A medida que se reduce el vocabulario, también se reduce el número de sentimientos que se pueden expresar, el número de acontecimientos que se pueden describir y el número de cosas que se pueden identificar. No sólo se limita la comprensión, sino también la experiencia. El hombre crece gracias al lenguaje. Cuando limita el lenguaje, retrocede.

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  Men, Numbers, Vocabulary

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.189, Spectra

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• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

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  Science, Ideas, Two

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• Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.

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  Book, Thinking, Age

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

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  Past, Expectations, Soul

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• Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.

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  Mother, Children, Rain

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• The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

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  Moving, Self, Righteous

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

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  Children, People, Risk

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Sideshow”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

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  Dream, Watches, Our Lives

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• All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

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  Believe, Men, Trying

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• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

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  Mother, Children, Lying

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

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• Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

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  Men, Thinking, Helping

  Sheri S. Tepper (1988). “The Gate to Women's Country”, Doubleday

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• The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

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  Practice, Soup, Littles

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• Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

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  Cutting, Boys, Games

  Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “The Gate to Women's Country”, p.123, Spectra

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• It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

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  Libro, Escribir, Importante

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• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

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  Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

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  Pain, Apples, Imagination

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance”, p.900, Hachette UK

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