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> [Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/utopias-are-boring-distopias-on-the-other-hand-are-interesting/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

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## More by Robert Silverberg

> [One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/one-defining-symptom-of-decadence-is-a-fondness-for-vast-and/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/it-has-been-suggested-that-tiptree-is-female-a-theory-that-i-find/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [Never pass by a chance to shut up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/never-pass-by-a-chance-to-shut-up/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“I'm not ready to fuck an empress just yet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/i-m-not-ready-to-fuck-an-empress-just-yet/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/three-rules-for-literary-success-1-read-a-lot-2-write-a-lot-3-read-a/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/utopias-are-boring-distopias-on-the-other-hand-are-interesting/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/history-could-be-as-arbitrary-as-poetry-he-told-himself-what-is/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“It’s because I hate to think that anything goes to waste. I mean, that anything that was ever important or valuable or precious to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/it-s-because-i-hate-to-think-that-anything-goes-to-waste-i-mean-that/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/death-was-the-only-question-that-contained-its-own-answer-and-when/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/men-of-great-spirit-are-at-high-risk-at-a-time-when-small-souls-rule/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/i-m-an-urban-new-yorker-to-the-last-molecule/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/he-met-me-at-the-airport-it-was-ten-in-the-morning-washington-time/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/he-felt-disgruntled-and-obscurely-let-down-at-having-paid-good-money/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/i-tried-to-be-good-to-judith-i-tried-to-be-kind-and-loving-but-our/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

> [“As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-silverberg/as-youngest-boy-in-service-the-worst-jobs-fell-to-him-and-this-would/)

[Robert Silverberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-silverberg/)

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