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
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Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
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I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
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Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
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If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you shake him, he bites.
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Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
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How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
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The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false ideaoccupying that niche.
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A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.