American - Writer | July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Don'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.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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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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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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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. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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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. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. 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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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