Quotes from Time in Advance — William Tenn
1920–2010 United States
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Science, my forward-looking friend, is a complex of interlocking theories, all derived from observation.
Time in Advance (1958)
Haven’t you ever heard it said that money isn’t everything, but that what it isn’t it can buy?
Time in Advance (1958)
A man doesn’t volunteer for a hitch in hell just so he can knock off one of the devils.
Time in Advance (1958)
Thank you very much for your lesson, but now, if you don’t mind, I’d like to go on, please. Some of us aren’t civil service workers: our time is valuable.
Time in Advance (1958)
He reached into his soul for an article of fundamental faith, found it. “I can make money,” he quoted to himself. “That’s what I’m good for. That’s what I can always do.”
Time in Advance (1958)
“They said you treated them very well, that you showed them as much respect as a thing like you could generate. They also said you cheated them.”
“Oh, well, Theseus,” Hebster spread his manicured hands. “I’m a businessman.”
Time in Advance (1958)