Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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beings experience hard hardly human learn
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
invasion diapers able
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
psychological faster contracts
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
nursing breastfeeding doe
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
mature masters equal
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
old-friends way doe
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
unbearable knows
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.
sight giving perspective
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
trust skeptical
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
humour prove collections
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
random-chance chance chances-are
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
often-is secret tails
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
trust rate sooner-or-later
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
kissing moments stolen-kisses
When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.