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The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice.

— Robert Silverberg A Time of Changes (1971)

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Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.

Up the Line (1969)

Beauty is a magnet: repels some, attracts many, leaves no one unmoved.

Capricorn Games (1974)

She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.

Thorns (1967)

Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.

The Gate of Worlds (1967)

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