Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. - Robert Silverberg
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
- Robert Silverberg
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. - Robert Silverberg
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. - Robert Silverberg
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
We are born by accident into a purely random universe. - Robert Silverberg
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it. - Robert Silverberg
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present. - Robert Silverberg
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg… - Robert Silverberg
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg…
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. - Robert Silverberg
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. - Robert Silverberg
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
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