Quotes by Gene Wolfe, Peace

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sleeping waking childhood memories memory unreliable-narrator america chicago greeks indianapolis laminoe magic moored-to-the-universe pre-mycenaean-tribes rose-red-ruins unguessable-generations death footsteps-of-the-long-dead people-you-have-yet-to-meet sleep surrounded-by-all-the-years the-dead biologists ecstasy searching-for-the-sun sunlight the-dark-corridors-of-forests the-sun trees

“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describebut it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, ...”
— Gene Wolfe, Peace
childhood memories memory unreliable-narrator

“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we, we now past Americans, were once the magical people of it, waiting now to stand to some ung...”
— Gene Wolfe, Peace
america chicago greeks indianapolis

“When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleeping, that I heard the footsteps of the long-dead; I have held conversations with them, and with th...”
— Gene Wolfe, Peace
death footsteps-of-the-long-dead people-you-have-yet-to-meet sleep

“I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awak...”
— Gene Wolfe, Peace
biologists ecstasy searching-for-the-sun sleeping