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Quotes from God Is An Iron — Spider Robinson

born 1948 Canada

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Five days of wireheading alone should have killed her, never mind sudden cold turkey.

God Is An Iron (1977)

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

God Is An Iron (1977)

God is an iron… and that's a hot one.

God Is An Iron (1977)

I smelled her before I saw her. Even so, the first sight was shocking.

God Is An Iron (1977)

Animated the face might have been beautiful — any set of features can support beauty — but even a superb makeup job could not have made her pretty.

God Is An Iron (1977)

Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure — which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior.

God Is An Iron (1977)

I've tried it with men and women and boys and girls, in the dark and in the desert sun, with people I cared for and people I didn't give a damn about, and I have never understood the pleasure in it. The best it's ever been for me is not uncomfortable.

God Is An Iron (1977)

Call it… joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt.

God Is An Iron (1977)

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