“There is no safety this side of the grave”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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