Robert Silverberg Quotes

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• Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
• My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
• Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from…
• Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
• Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money…
• I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
• Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
• Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
• The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that…
• Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable…
• There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit…
• 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 writing.…
• Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
• It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the…
• When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

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