Quotes by Philip Jos Farmer

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Science fiction and fantasy writer · American · 1918–2009

American science fiction and fantasy writer (1918–2009)

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“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

“It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.”

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

“Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.”

“Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.”

“Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.”

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“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude ...”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

ignorance

“You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic ter...”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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“Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.”

— Philip Jos Farmer

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