Spider Robinson

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

— Spider Robinson

“Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.”

— Spider Robinson

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I…

— Spider Robinson

And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they…

— Spider Robinson

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

— Spider Robinson

“It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan…

— Spider Robinson

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God…

— Spider Robinson

“Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie — and the A-movie for that matter —…

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To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the…

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honesty is hard work.

— Spider Robinson

“anger is always fear in disguise”

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“Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out…

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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

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“Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name…

— Spider Robinson

“Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.”

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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

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“Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on…

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“He smiled like a sun lamp.”

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Time didn't pass; it tailgated.

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The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The…

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A beginning is the end of something, always.

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“Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased”

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“A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going…

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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of…

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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

— Spider Robinson