"The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not,……" — Robert Silverberg
"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 by being extremely argumentative and vindictive."
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15 Quotes by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which…
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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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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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More Argumentative Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether,…
— Lord Byron
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
— Unknown Author
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There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate…
— Peter Brook
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about…
— John of Salisbury
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be…
— Ryan Adams
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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not…
— China Mieville
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At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and…
— David J. Lieberman
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Seal the door behind us. (Acheron) Um, not to be argumentative or anything, but didn’t we have to fight to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her…
— John C. Wright
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
— Peter Hammill
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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported…
— George Fetherling
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