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"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" p. 11 (originally published in Full Spectrum, edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 44)
Источник: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 368)
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 27 (p. 314)
Источник: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 12)
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 21)
"Diary of a Mad Deity" p. 191 (originally published in Synergy: New Science Fiction, Number 2, edited by George Zebrowski)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
Источник: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 8 (p. 170)
“Those who can kill themselves do, and those who can’t, teach philosophy.”
Источник: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 295)
“Her audacity turned him on. There was nobody quite so arousing, he decided, as a worthy opponent.”
Источник: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 11, “War” (p. 298)
Источник: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 14, “In Which the Nuclear Warriors have Their Day in Court” (p. 183)
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 11 (p. 130)
Источник: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 254)
Источник: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 13)
“Burne was tough. Burne practiced archeology, the most inconvenient of the sciences.”
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 1 (p. 12)
“A golden age, Londa calls it. She hopes it will return.”
“Golden ages rarely return,” I said “especially if they never existed.”
Источник: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 366)
Источник: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 8 (p. 169)
“You inflict eternal punishment on people,” Julie countered.
“Merely because it’s our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.”
Источник: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
“I know all about it, Reverend. You folks do more experimenting than Princeton’s entire physics department.”
Источник: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 66)
“It must have been hard converting your elders in the Pentagon to this view.”
“Ever try stuffing a melted marshmallow up a wildcat’s ass? It can be done, but you have to like your job.”
Источник: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 13, “In Which the Prosecution’s Case Is Said to Be a Grin without a Cat” (p. 165)
“Right!” said Sverre. “We owe it to all those millions of dead people to make more millions of dead people. Be careful how you rewrite strategic doctrine, General, or you’ll come out of this war without a single medal.”
Источник: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 7, “In Which Our Hero Makes a Strategic Decision and Acquires a Reason Not to Curse God and Die” (p. 80)
“What do you want out of life, Francis Lostwax?”
Francis smiled. “To never hurt anybody again.” His lack of hesitation surprised him. “To feel clean.”
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 27 (p. 314)
“Talo, it would appear that our sons are growing up.”
She tut-tutted in mock solemnity. “And we always said, ‘It can’t happen here.’”
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 25 (p. 296)
“On your planet, how do you tell somebody that you love her?”
“It’s very complicated. You say, ‘I love you,’ and then you stand back and see what happens.”
Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 9 (p. 112)
“In fact, there’s probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person.”
“What’s that?” asked Nimrod.
“Being able to understand him completely.”
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
Источник: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 402; spoken by the Devil)
Источник: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 392)