“Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me—death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 488

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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