“Theobald ignored him. He could be deaf when he chose; he seemed to find it particularly difficult to hear the word “No.””

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 132

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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