"Tire Devourers want only to amass cash and to raise little ones like themselves to amass more cash and they want to compete with each other at cash-amassing. <…> And the Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes — it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods —and to complain about how the work of amassing cash torture their mind and frustrating their digestions. Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or this is their ultimate preference—with nothing at all.
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перевод: И. Русецкий, 1994
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Фриц Лейбер цитаты
Фриц Лейбер: Цитаты на английском языке
“A Bit of the Dark World” (p. 263)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex.”
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 230)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.”
The Big Time (1958)
The Seven Black Priests (pp. 175-176)
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)