“He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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