Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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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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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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