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Avram Davidson Quotes (1923-1993)
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About Avram Davidson
Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction.
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“It was a distinction without a difference.”
“Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.”
“No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.”
“Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.”
“These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.”
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
“Recall the instructor at the Academy: “What is Man, young aspirants? Man is an animal that trades…””
“It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.”
“Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.”
““A conscientious and diligent scientist—”
“—must remain a continual student,” a deep voice finished the quotation.”
“—must remain a continual student,” a deep voice finished the quotation.”
“Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life.”
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Avram Davidson on Experience
“Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.”
Avram Davidson on Life
“In life, if not in literature, there is always anticlimax.”
Avram Davidson on Fools
Avram Davidson on Bookkeeping
“There was an inn...which kept no register of...a number of seamstresses and tailors who lacked time and place and perhaps inclination to weave the cloths they cut and sewed, depending instead on the activities of those who preferred not to vex the original owners with the tiresome bookkeeping inseparable from purchase.”
About Avram Davidson
Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction.