"Having lost our present and our future, we……" — Robert Silverberg
"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 us if only we were vigilant enough."
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15 Quotes by Robert Silverberg
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Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
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My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
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Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
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Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures…
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I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
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Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
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Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they…
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Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that…
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There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly…
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It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something…
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Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
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