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I've heard that some of the larger spiders hunt songbirds. I have no objection to that. The spiders belong here, too. Let nature do what it needs to do. We who are people know more than to guide ourselves by nature's practices.
Robert Sheckley
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
Robert Sheckley
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
Robert Sheckley
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Robert Sheckley
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
Robert Sheckley
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
Robert Sheckley
Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.” Marvin nodded. "Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, "this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.
Robert Sheckley
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
Robert Sheckley
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
Robert Sheckley
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
Robert Sheckley
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley
Since the invention of gunpowder, crazies have been bad news.
Robert Sheckley
Hey, what is this,” he asked. "I guess maybe you could call it like love,” Caroline said. "Whaddaya mean, love?” Chet asked. "Your contract expressly forbids you to fall in love during the duration of your tenth kill, and it furthermore explicitly forbids you to fall in love with your Victim.” "Love,” Caroline said coolly, "existed a long time before contracts.
Robert Sheckley
- "What is reality?" - "One of the many possible illusions.
Robert Sheckley
Most men lead lives of quiet aspiration.
Robert Sheckley
Would you define Good for me, Citizen Abbot?” "Certainly. Good is that force within us which inspires men to acts of conformity and subservience. The worship of Good is essentially the worship of oneself, and therefore the only true worship. The self which one worships is the ideal social being: the man content in his niche in society, yet ready to creatively advance his status. Good is gentle, since it is a true reflection of the loving and pitying universe. Good is continually changing in its aspects, although it comes to us in the... You have a strange look on your face, young man.
Robert Sheckley
My dear Dahl, the first, the primary, task is to bring the earth back into ecological balance. That's your task, you and the Bahamas Corporation. Ours is to give people something exciting to do other than war while that is going on. Without us and our Hunt, you and your high-minded scientists will just be another group of dreamers living in an imaginary kingdom of sweet reason while the madness of real politics rages all around you. Be practical, Dahl, let's do something together.
Robert Sheckley
Isn't there anything you can do about the predator?
Robert Sheckley
I'm proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you'll find quite enjoyable.
Robert Sheckley
Nobody says any longer, When will the killing stop?
Robert Sheckley
The disease may not be too difficult to live with. I thought you said it was terminal?
Robert Sheckley
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