Tim Powers

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Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
- Tim Powers
Collection: Errors
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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
Collection: World
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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.
- Tim Powers
Collection: Wages
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The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
- Tim Powers
Collection: Sea
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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
Collection: Fun
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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
Collection: Mail
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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
Collection: Cat
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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
Collection: Party