Robert Sheckley - Time Quotes

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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.
Contracts, Martin said viciously, are a lot more enforceable than love.

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You have been bitten by the travel bug, which is very suitable for your time of life, and is a passion akin to falling in love, or fighting an idealistic war, or becoming disillusioned with the world, and other postures of the young.

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Once upon a time men resisted the implications of actuality. That day is gone. We know now that art is the thing itself together with its extensions into superfluity. Not pop art, I hasten to say, which sneers and exaggerates. This is popular art, which simply exists. This is the age in which we unconditionally accept the unacceptable, and thus proclaim the naturalness of our artificiality.

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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.

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He distrusted all laws, even the best, while at the same time recognizing the necessity for them. For Joenes, a law took its goodness from the nature of the men who administered it. When the nature of those men changed, as Joenes believed was inevitable, then the nature of the law changed, too. When this happened, new laws and new lawgivers had to be found.

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