Robert Sheckley Short Quotes

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don't like it much either.

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Love is a wonderful game which begins in fun and ends in marriage.

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All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.

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They were shunned, and they had reacted to exclusion by exclusiveness.

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Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

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The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom, the hermit quoted.

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In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions.

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Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.

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Remember, the inevitable inefficiency of a huge bureaucracy will be working for you.

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Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

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A little prescience goes a long way, especially in a galaxy as disorganized as this one.

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Still, no matter how commonplace, one's death is the most interesting event of one's life.

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Even rulers, notoriously the slowest of men to change, realized that something had to be done.

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I'll follow the reedy tenor of his excuses and blast them with the bellowy bass of irrefutable logic!

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It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

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He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable—a routine miracle.

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For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a short-lived state of autosuggestion.

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A malfunction of this type can be cured only by changing the nature of the universe, which is, of course, impractical.

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You might say that, Flynn said, thus avoiding an outright lie, since anyone might say anything whether it was true or not.

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All his studies had been for extraterrestrial exploration. There was no place for him on Earth; and now he was barred from space.

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Marvin did not give way to despair. He gave way instead to anger, which was a much healthier emotion, though equally unproductive.

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Thus action serves as anodyne, whereas contemplation is revealed as the most direct form of involvement, and therefore much shunned by men.

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She was an extremely attractive woman if you like the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.

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How nicely you put it! We may rant against fortune and the world, but we are left at the end with the stark proposition: These are the things which are.

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For the question inevitably remains, is Polletti's admission of fear a magnificent conquest of the unconquerable, or a mere admission of the inadmissable?

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Carmody's jaw stiffened and he withdrew his hand. He had been pushed around long enough. Now, for the sake of his own self-esteem, he would not yield any more.

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Well, no sense crying over unspilt blood, the Prize Clerk said. If we took full account of our eventualities, we'd soon run out of eventualities for us to take full account of.

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Our roles are chose for us in this world by the stern dictates of an unrelenting Fate; and many a man who thought to play the emperor on Life's stage found himself cast for a corpse instead.

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