“In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 238)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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