Tim Powers Quotes

#1. I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

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#2. The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

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#3. Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.

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#4. Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

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#5. As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and - if there's any worth in me - marry the only woman in whom I can see both a body and a face, and with whom I need not resign one or the other of my own.

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#6. Another howl broke from the tent downstream, this one sounding more like pieces of metal being violined against each other than an issue from any organic throat.

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#7. The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

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#8. Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

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#9. We need a pretty substantial favor." She pointed at Crawford and herself. "He and I want to get married. Uh, Father Cyprian, this is John Crawford, and this is our daughter, Johanna." The priest nodded sympathetically. "One does tend to keep putting these things off, doesn't one?

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#10. The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. - William Faulkner

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#11. Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

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#12. Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it away.

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#13. His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.

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#14. It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

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#15. The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

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#16. I think this is the first of her last-person novels." Scott

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#17. A kid just couldn't see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.

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#18. Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to fainting.

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#19. I'd be happy just to go back to about 1990," said Scott quietly. "The way we all were then.

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#20. It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

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#21. I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

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#22. Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

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