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Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Have Space Suit—Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. It is the last of the Heinlein juveniles.


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“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7

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““Die trying” is the proudest human thing.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 11

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“Television leaves no external scars.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3

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“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 9

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“You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 8

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“When a fact came along, he junked theories that failed to match.”

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 12

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