"When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment."

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Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.90, Macmillan

Gene Wolfe

#Payment Quotes

“This is America. You're allowed to have your views.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.”
“Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.”

Source : "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.
“It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.”
“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.”
“They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.”
“Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnâ€™t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? â€˜Presume not the ways of God to scan,â€™ youâ€™ve been told in umpteen variations, â€˜the proper study of Mankind is Man.â€™ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (Thatâ€™s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)”

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