There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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