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Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein

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“I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.”
— "The Discovery of the Future," Guest of Honor Speech, 3rd World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado (4 July 1941)
“What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.”
— The Year of the Jackpot (p. 644)
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
— Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— "Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
— Chapter 21 (p. 214)
“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”
— Response to efforts to censor his first novel, Red Planet

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

On IJR

No public IJR answers mention Robert A. Heinlein yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.

Notable quotes

“I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.”
— "The Discovery of the Future," Guest of Honor Speech, 3rd World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado (4 July 1941)
“What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.”
— The Year of the Jackpot (p. 644)
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
— Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— "Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
— Chapter 21 (p. 214)
“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”
— Response to efforts to censor his first novel, Red Planet

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.