“The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Podkayne of Mars

Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 125)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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