Spider Robinson Quotes

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• Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

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  Thinking, Littles, Imbeciles

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• Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

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  Pain, Law, Joy

  "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon". Book by Spider Robinson, 1977.

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• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

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  Pain, Empathy, Joy

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• We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

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  Crazy, Moving, Speed

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• Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

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  Disguise

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

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

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  Indulge In, Iron, Felons

  Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books

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• This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.

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  Forever, Trying, Essentials

  Spider Robinson (1997). “The Star Dancers”

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• You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

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  Pain, Giving, Joy

  Spider Robinson (1981). “Time travelers strictly cash”

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• Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

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  Stupid, Men, Kind

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

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  Teaching, Assessment, Information

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• You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

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  Lying, People, Track

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• In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

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  Jobs, Educational, Night

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• Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

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  Two Sides, Rupture, Threatening

  Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson (2010). “Variable Star”, p.212, Macmillan

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• there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

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  Heart, Secret, Mind

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• A beginning is the end of something, always.

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  Ends

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• Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

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  Fall, Dark, Mad

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• Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

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  Pain, Joy

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• Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

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  Rights, Vests, Intercourse

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• When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.

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  Writing, Life Is Short, Never Settle

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• It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

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  Couple, Smart, Thinking

  "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.

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• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

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  Fun, Smart, Hard Work

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• She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

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  Art, Way, Said

  Spider Robinson (1997). “The Star Dancers”

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• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

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  Dirty, Tired, Sunday

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• honesty is hard work.

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  Honesty, Hard Work, Hard

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