Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 23

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• A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Unbiased, Critics

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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• How can you argue with a woman who won't?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Arguing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fiction, Answers, Astronomy

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• There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

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  Way, Civilized, Tamed

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• Everybody lies about sex.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Lying, Everybody Lies

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, World, Scientific Method

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• Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Witty, Alcohol, Political

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art

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• Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Latin, Simple, English Grammar

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Long, Hatred

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• On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Sex, Nice

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.28, Penguin

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• Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clothings

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• Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Echoes, Talking, Argument

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Technology, Space

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• But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cute, Girl, Mean

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• If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Long, People

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• Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Survival, Fiction

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• Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Honest, Truthful, Autobiography

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Important, Attention

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

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  Time, Majority, Right Time

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• Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Anger, Trying

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• Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Father, Cities, Never Settle

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• Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Force, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• All cats are not gray after midnight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Cat, Midnight

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• He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Often Is, Secret, Tails

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