Quotes by Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Behavior

Might

Order

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

Data

Names

Two

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Enough

Lost

Past

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

Fascinating

World

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Emotional

Energy

Hate

Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.

Ignorance

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.

Believe

Men

Writing

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Color

Vision

Years

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

Cheer

Dying

Mind

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Men

Risk

Soul

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Accidents

Behavior

Believe

Boring

Born

Chance

Cheer

Citizens

Color

Common Sense

Data

Defining

Doe

Dying

Emotional

Enemy

Energy

Enough

Extravagance

Fascinating

Feelings

Fleeting

Hands

Hate

House

Ignorance

Interesting

Long

Lost

Matter

May

Men

Might

Mind

Names

Nonsensical

Order

Past

Promotion

Risk

Self

Shut Up

Soul

Stale

Taken

Three

Two

Unique

Universe

Unthinkable

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Quotes by Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

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