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Quotes from Mindswap — Robert Sheckley

1928–2005 United States

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“The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom,” the hermit quoted.

Mindswap (1966)

In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions.

Mindswap (1966)

All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.

Mindswap (1966)

Thus action serves as anodyne, whereas contemplation is revealed as the most direct form of involvement, and therefore much shunned by men.

Mindswap (1966)

Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don’t like it much either.

Mindswap (1966)

Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.

Mindswap (1966)

Our roles are chose for us in this world by the stern dictates of an unrelenting Fate; and many a man who thought to play the emperor on Life’s stage found himself cast for a corpse instead.

Mindswap (1966)

Marvin did not give way to despair. He gave way instead to anger, which was a much healthier emotion, though equally unproductive.

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You have been bitten by the travel bug, which is very suitable for your time of life, and is a passion akin to falling in love, or fighting an idealistic war, or becoming disillusioned with the world, and other postures of the young.

Mindswap (1966)

And a great longing overcame him, a desire to be finished with desire, to forego pleasure and pain, to quit the petty modes of achievement and failure, to have done with distractions, and get on with the business of life, which was death.

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All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth or falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.

Mindswap (1966)

Attribution

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