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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional you have to let them know who’s boss.
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