Murray Leinster Quotes

#1. It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

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#2. It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

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#3. We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.

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#4. There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

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#5. every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

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#6. He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

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#7. Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared.

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#8. Nothing," snapped Howell, "that a man can imagine is impossible!

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#9. It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet ...

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#10. Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

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#11. Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

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#12. No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

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#13. The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

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#14. The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

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#15. The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

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#16. Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

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#17. The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But

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#18. I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

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