“What is the purpose of being really intelligent if not to have the substance of what you want without mistaking it for the shadow?”

— Robert Sheckley, book Welcome to the Standard Nightmare

Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

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American writer 1928–2005

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