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Top 20 R. A. Lafferty Quotes (2024 Update)

R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.”

1. “The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “We must kill the Devil afresh every day.”

2. “We must kill the Devil afresh every day.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.”

3. “There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.”

4. “Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”

5. “The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.”

6. “The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.”

7. “When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out.”

8. “Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.”

9. “The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren’t any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

10. “The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren’t any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

11. “Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

— R. A. Lafferty

R. A. Lafferty Quote: “True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.”

12. “True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

13. “I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

14. “An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.”

15. “Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .”

16. “When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The ghost of some other fiction might say in truth to Science Fiction: “You’re not very good, are you?” But Science Fiction can answer “Maybe not, but I’m alive and you’re dead.”

17. “The ghost of some other fiction might say in truth to Science Fiction: “You’re not very good, are you?” But Science Fiction can answer “Maybe not, but I’m alive and you’re dead.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.”

18. “Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil was cast into hell; any other account you have heard is false.”

19. “There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil was cast into hell; any other account you have heard is false.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “The first requisite of being an intellectual is that one be intelligent. It isn’t always observed.”

20. “The first requisite of being an intellectual is that one be intelligent. It isn’t always observed.”

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R. A. Lafferty Quote: “But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we still owe loyalty to an Empire, but we no longer know of what the Empire consists. We are still bound by the statement of Stilicho that the highest duty in the World is the proper ordering of the World. There will be, and are, other worlds; and perhaps it is not a terrible thing that a world should end. But we are still in admiration at the great corpse of it.”

21. “But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we still owe loyalty to an Empire, but we no longer know of what the Empire consists. We are still bound by the statement of Stilicho that the highest duty in the World is the proper ordering of the World. There will be, and are, other worlds; and perhaps it is not a terrible thing that a world should end. But we are still in admiration at the great corpse of it.”

— R. A. Lafferty

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