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Still, no matter how commonplace, one’s death is the most interesting event of one’s life.

— Robert Sheckley Immortality, Inc (1959)

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More quotes by Robert Sheckley

Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.

Hunter/Victim (1988)

How does the fool build his paradise?—out of the crumbling bricks of illusion and the watery cement of hope.

The Game of X (1965)

Man is the only animal whose fear of embarrassment can overcome his instinct for self-preservation.

The Game of X (1965)

Nobody says any longer, “When will the killing stop?” Now we know that the killing will stop only when life itself stops.

Victim Prime (1987)

Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril.

The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

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