Tim Powers Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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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