Spider Robinson Quotes
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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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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
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Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
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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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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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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
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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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To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
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Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
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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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And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
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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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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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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
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We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
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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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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
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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.