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Book cover for Delights & Shadows
Walking on Tiptoe Long ago we quit lifting our heels like the others — horse, dog, and tiger — though we thrill to their speed as they flee. Even the mouse bearing the great weight of a nugget of dog food is enviably graceful. There is ...more
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Gene Wolfe
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense stature in some unremunerated field, the strategy and theory of some sport or the practice of some craft, have had an exhaustive knowledge of old circus posters or eighteenth-century inn signs or the mathematics of comets; and nothing so distinguished Professor Peacock from the ruck of men as his air of amateurishness.”
Gene Wolfe, Peace

Pablo Neruda
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Gene Wolfe
“Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)”
Gene Wolfe, Peace

Gene Wolfe
“He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;”
Gene Wolfe, Peace

Gene Wolfe
“But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be “nice.”
Gene Wolfe, Peace

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