“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 2, “The Natural Logarithm of Two” (p. 24)
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“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)
“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 25 (p. 260)
“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)
“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 5 (p. 50)
“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)
“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 27 (p. 286)
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 257)
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)
“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
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Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”
There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 125)
“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 6 (p. 60)