Top 64 C.j. Cherryh Quotes
#1. I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.
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#2. Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
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#3. Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath?
Could ever there be too much love?
And could love require lies?
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#4. For another - you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager.
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#5. Belief ... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.
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#6. Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji.
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#7. You know its shape, since you have it. Give it up, and be paid. Or don't - and be paid, hani, be paid then too.
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#8. Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
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#10. I couldn't yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition.
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#11. What we individually deserve isn't as much as what we collectively merit.
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#12. I'm not a person who stands still well. But the the earth is always in motion, and I like keeping up with it. I don't want just to exist. I want to know. I want to see. I want to understand.
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#13. Flying was no cure for want of sleep. The brain wanted time to recycle: when it became all one long, uninterrupted day, the ability to keep going and to keep thinking was no warrant it was healty even for Superman.-Superman
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#14. Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
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#15. Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?
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#16. He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.
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#17. Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets.
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#18. A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding ... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
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#19. The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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#20. Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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#21. Is that the end ... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?
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#22. I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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#23. Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
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#24. He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions.
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#25. A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one ...
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#26. For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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#27. The necessity of getting up. He made it that far. Ended up with Banichi's arm around him, Banichi standing on one leg. The dowager-aiji said something rude about young men falling at her feet, and go sit down, SHE was in command of the plane.
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#28. If I can make you angry ... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game
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#29. Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
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#30. Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust-
Someone as brave as her father, someone not afraid of him - no matter what.
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#31. I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.
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#33. There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
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#34. Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
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#35. Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along.
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#36. It struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower.
And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do ... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome of it.
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#37. Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics.
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#38. There is your best path, if you can get on it and direct it as best you can. The direction it may take yet is not in your power: but what sort of man walks that path, when you are a man, that you can decide.
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#39. Writing day and night for months ... that's hard.
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#40. Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.
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#41. Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish ...
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#42. Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.
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#43. A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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#44. Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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#45. Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha.
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#46. And she learned to do that, be very nice to people she knew quite well were the Enemy, and even like them sometimes: it didn't mean you weren't going to Get them, because they were bound to do something that would remind you what they were sooner or later.
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#47. Myself, I love the woods. I love the wild places. Ask me where I'd go for a vacation and it invariably involves the open country. Ask me where I'd live, however, and it would always be in the center, in the beating heart of a city.
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#48. He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune.
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#49. Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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#50. A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction.
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#51. Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane
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#52. Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?
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#53. Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on.
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#54. Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.
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#55. Also, a foreign accent if at least intelligible can sound quite sexy.
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#56. My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land.
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#57. Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation.
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#58. I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead.
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#59. He had read about evil in Efanor's little book, and how it permeated the doings of Men, but he had never foud such doings evil, rather good and bad ... but none without self-interest, none he could not understand even in terms of his own will to have his way.
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#60. It is perfectly okay to write garbage
as long as you edit brilliantly.
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#61. If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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#62. Never start a war with something you can't talk to.
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#63. The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer.
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#64. When it is necessary to survive, then one cannot be brave anymore.
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