Top 22 Geoff Ryman Quotes
#1. God, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.
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#2. Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.
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#3. Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.
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#4. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?
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#5. Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.
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#6. She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.
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#7. You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.
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#8. William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.
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#9. I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it's 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.
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#10. It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.
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#11. Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.
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#12. He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.
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#13. You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.
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#14. The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence ...
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#15. In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all of that fell away, and there was only what was here, and what was to be done.
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#16. Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. 'I'm sorry about your shins,' she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People were generous. Milena had never believed that.
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#17. This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can't get fresh fruit in the shops.
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#18. Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.
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#19. There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.
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#20. In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
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#21. Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.
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#22. Everything move ... you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.
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