Robert Silverberg Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.116, Macmillan
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“Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.”
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“There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (1984). “Lord of Darkness”, Bantam
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“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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“It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.”
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“To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean
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“Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
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“I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
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“Never pass by a chance to shut up.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
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“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2014). “The Stochastic Man”, p.4, Open Road Media
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“Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : FaceBook post by Robert Silverberg from May 16, 2014
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“The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK
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“Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean
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“When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.”
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“Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.302, Macmillan
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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 no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2011). “Nightwings”, p.49, Hachette UK
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“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : "New Dimensions 1". Anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, 1971.
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“Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : "Hell's Cartographers (Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal)". Book edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison, 1975.
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“I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean
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“Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2011). “Up the Line”, p.11, Hachette UK
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“Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.”
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2014). “The Stochastic Man”, p.70, Open Road Media
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