"I was never able to write seriously about……" — Robert Sheckley
"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
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Robert Sheckley
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30 Quotes by Robert Sheckley
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Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace…
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Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
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Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render…
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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write,…
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote…
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like…
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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy,…
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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical…
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