It wouldn’t be so bad. There was, after all, a certain joy in hard, dedicated work, a sort of pleasure in denying oneself pleasures, and a sour happiness to be found in steadiness, circumspection, dependability…
More quotes by Robert Sheckley
Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.
Man is the only animal whose fear of embarrassment can overcome his instinct for self-preservation.
Still, no matter how commonplace, one’s death is the most interesting event of one’s life.
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