“I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.”
― The Pleasure of My Company
― The Pleasure of My Company
“I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts . . . because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.”
― 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
“I think, after all, I’m happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.”
― Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
― Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
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