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R. A. Lafferty

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Also known as Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

American writer (1914–2002)

Person · Open Library

Born
7 November 1914
Died
18 March 2002
Works
172

Top works

  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 15th Series
  • Los mejores relatos de fantasia II
  • the reefs of earth
  • FOURTH MANSIONS
  • New Dimensions 1 Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories

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Listeners
3
Total plays
13

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Quotes

  • "Tell me the truth, girl: how does the man next door ship out trailer-loads of material from a building ten times too small to hold the stuff?" "He cuts prices."
  • "My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. "Reality melts away."
  • “There are two possibilities,” said sour John. “One is that I am slow of understanding. The other is that you are not making sense. On other evidence, I know the first possibility to be impossible.”
  • Then bury me again and leave me in peace. Nobody likes to be resurrected before he's had time to get comfortable in his grave.
  • To you who are scattered and broken, gather again and mend. Rebuild always, and again I say rebuild. Renew the face of the earth. It is a loved face, but now it is covered with the webs of tired spiders.
  • When very young, Hannali would sit on the black ground and chuckle till it was feared he would injure himself. Whatever came over him, prenatal witticism or ancestral joke, he seldom was able to hold his glee. In all his life he never learned to hold it in.

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date of birth
1914-11-07
date of death
2002-03-18
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