"Who could not return from a visit to……" — Robert Silverberg
"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 in our mundane world?"
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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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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they…
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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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