“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup — if any.”

Introduction to "Cliff and the Calories," in Expanded Universe, (1980), pg. 355

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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