Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
age might accepting
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
beautiful naked common
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
economic pardon theory
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.
sleep dust miles
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
book men needs
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
pride fishing dancing
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
stupid government three
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
heart people mistress
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.
rude happiness-and-love duty
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
men moral individual
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
railroads
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
laughing so-sad humans
Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
groups moral members
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
sex clothes doe
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.