Spider Robinson quotes - page 2

Over and over again I find in my short stories that I am, by policy, optimistic. Looking back on it and thinking it over after 25 years, I'm real proud of that. If that's a defect, it's a defect I'm sinfully proud of and I hope I can manage to maintain that excessively optimistic attitude for another 25 years. (Spider Robinson)
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool. View quote
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I had just seen the two most horrible things. The first was the smile. They say that when the bomb went off at Hiroshima, some people's shadows were baked onto walls by it. I think that smile got baked on the surface of my brain in much the same way. I don't want to talk about that smile. View quote
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Nikky has more fiber than I do, I guess: he doesn't let a little thing like death slow him down. View quote
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Anger is always - always - fear in disguise. View quote
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honesty is hard work. View quote
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Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep. View quote
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Call it... joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. View quote
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Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity. View quote
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Time didn't pass; it tailgated. View quote
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I was putting together a picture of a life that would have depressed anyone with the sensitivity of a rhino. (Spider Robinson)
In a culture where pessimism has metastasized like slow carcinoma, that crazy Irishman was backward enough to try to raise hopes, like hothouse flowers. View quote
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But I refuse to say that we will not see his like again. Or his love again. View quote
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Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure - which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior. View quote
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Above all, he - and his goofball customers - believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased. View quote
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Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze - and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence. View quote
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We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour. View quote
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history. View quote
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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. View quote
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Call it... joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It's nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it's got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it. View quote
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