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Tim Powers Quotes

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

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

Tim Powers
Errors, Answers, Problem
Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.406, Penguin

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

Tim Powers
World, Drink, Beast
Tim Powers (2016). “The Ghosts of the Past: Three historical novels by Tim Powers”, p.186, Atlantic Books

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

Tim Powers
Wages, Lad
Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

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

Tim Powers
Sea, Weather, Vessel
Tim Powers (2011). “On Stranger Tides”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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.

Tim Powers
Fun, Fire, I've Learned
Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.297, Penguin

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

Tim Powers
Mail, Fairness, Fairs
"Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.

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.

Tim Powers
Cat, Boys, Fire

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.

Tim Powers
Party, Thinking, People

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