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It's always coldest before the warm. (Spider Robinson)
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. View quote
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A man should live forever, or die trying. View quote
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God is an iron... and that's a hot one. View quote
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To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called - and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late! View quote
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. View quote
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality. View quote
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A beginning is the end of something, always. View quote
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Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. View quote
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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me... only he's an imbecile. View quote
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...when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok... (Spider Robinson)
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. View quote
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there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with. View quote
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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. View quote
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The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars. View quote
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The only kind of church I'd want to belong to is the one where no one can quite remember who the hell the prophet was or what exactly it was he did and they wouldn't recognize him if he showed up. View quote
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I smelled her before I saw her. Even so, the first sight was shocking. View quote
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Animated the face might have been beautiful - any set of features can support beauty - but even a superb makeup job could not have made her pretty. View quote
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Five days of wireheading alone should have killed her, never mind sudden cold turkey. View quote
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Now I can say that I have sampled the spectrum of the pleasure system at both ends - none and all there is - and I think the rest of my life I will dedicate myself to the middle of the road and see how that works out. Starting with the very weak tea and toast I'm going to ask you to bring me in another ten minutes or so. With maltose. But as for this other stuff, this joy thing, that I would like to begin learning about, as much as I can. I don't really know a God damned thing about it, but I understand it has something to do with sharing and caring and what did you say your name was? View quote
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I wanted to understand. (Spider Robinson)
As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky." View quote
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It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? View quote
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If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. View quote
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I've tried it with men and women and boys and girls, in the dark and in the desert sun, with people I cared for and people I didn't give a damn about, and I have never understood the pleasure in it. The best it's ever been for me is not uncomfortable. View quote
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