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Quotes from Podkayne of Mars — Robert A. Heinlein

1907–1988 United States

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Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

I called after him but he just kept going. Clark is not hard of hearing but he can be very hard of listening.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

Clark just looked bored and contemptuous and said nothing, because Clark would not bother to interfere with Armageddon unless there was ten percent in it for him.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “charming” by men is to listen while they talk.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

Oh, sure, I learned about other systems in school—but it didn’t soak in. Now I am beginning to grasp emotionally that There Are Other Ways Than Ours…and that people can be happy under them.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

Poddy’s greatest weakness—the really soft place in her head, she’s not too stupid otherwise—is her almost total inability to grasp that some people are as bad as they are. Evil. Poddy never has understood evil. Naughtiness is about as far as her imagination reaches.

Podkayne of Mars (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert A. Heinlein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.