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Starman Jones

Starman Jones

Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.


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“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”

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Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)

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“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)

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“Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 12, “Halcyon” (p. 135)

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“A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 111)

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“But as grandpop always said, there are just three ways to get ahead; sweat and genius, getting born into the right family, or marrying into it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 8, “Three Ways to Get Ahead” (p. 82)

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“I guess I don’t understand women.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

“That’s an understatement.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)

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“Oh Max, you large lout, you arouse the eternal maternal in me.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 17, “Charity” (p. 185)

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“Max opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again. “No.”
“Speak louder. You used a word I don’t understand.””

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 9, “Chartman Jones” (p. 95)

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“Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright?”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones

Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)

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