Top 57 Spider Robinson Quotes
#3. The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
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#4. Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed,
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#5. Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
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#6. ... when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence ... in love, never settle ... value yourself first and this will help you to value others ... life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest ... everyone in the world is different, and that's ok ...
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#9. Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I
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#10. In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
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#11. If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
Heaven first ...
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#13. We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
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#14. Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly.
He froze.
"I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing ... but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat.
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#15. Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
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#16. Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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#17. Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
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#19. Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.
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#20. And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
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#23. You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.
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#24. And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
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#25. To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called - and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
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#26. She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.
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#27. If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
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#28. You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
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#30. To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
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#31. Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
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#32. Callahan's Law:
Shared pain is lessened;
Shared joy is increased.
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#34. Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
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#35. Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
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#39. It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
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#41. Hey Jake. I got an idea.'
'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
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#42. There's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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#43. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
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#44. The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
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#45. Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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#46. Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy.
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#47. And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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#48. Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
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#49. The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.
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#50. Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze - and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.
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#51. Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
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#52. Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
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#54. Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.
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#55. Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
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#56. One of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
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