Best Quotes by Spider Robinson (Top 10)

  1. Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
  2. Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
  3. "when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence"in love, never settle"value yourself first and this will help you to value others"life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest"everyone in the world is different, and that's ok"
  4. Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
  5. If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
  6. Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
  7. This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving — and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
  8. Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
  9. there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
  10. Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

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