“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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