“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”

—  Frederik Pohl , book Gateway

Gateway (1978)

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American science fiction writer and editor 1919–2013

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