“The fascination of what’s difficult,” said Chalk. “It spins the world on its bearings.”

— Robert Silverberg , book Thorns

Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 1, “The Song the Neurons Sang” (p. 7)

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American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

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