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Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human. — Joe Haldeman

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is. — Joe Haldeman

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. — Joe Haldeman

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer. — Joe Haldeman

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Every band is allowed to do things how they want - including getting on stage in pink pasiley suits and doing TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIPS. — J.E. Haldeman

We move to Camp David and we hide. They can't get in there. — H.R. Haldeman

Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket. — Joe Haldeman

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. — Mary McGrory

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness. — Joe Haldeman

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. — Joe Haldeman

Christ and Buddha, — Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction. — Joe Haldeman

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank. — Joe Haldeman

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century. — Joe Haldeman

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it. — Joe Haldeman

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it. — Joe Haldeman

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months. — Joe Haldeman

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman

Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture. — Joe Haldeman

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that. — Joe Haldeman

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. — E. Haldeman-Julius

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth. — Joe Haldeman

There's a place for farts, and there's a place for sharts. — J.E. Haldeman

A good title is a work of a genius! — E. Haldeman-Julius

[H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's. — Joe Haldeman

On Earth, we'd just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky. — Joe Haldeman

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt. — Joe Haldeman

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation. — Joe Haldeman

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared. — Joe Haldeman

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man. — Joe Haldeman

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. — Joe Haldeman

I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge. — Joe Haldeman

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed. — Joe Haldeman

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new! — Joe Haldeman

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet. — Joe Haldeman

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't. — Joe Haldeman

different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak — Joe Haldeman

the Aleph-Null campaign. — Joe Haldeman

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet. — Joe Haldeman

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was ... He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me. — Joe Haldeman

Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. — Joe Haldeman

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand. — Joe Haldeman

Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate. — Joe Haldeman

This world was no place for anyone with access to another. — Joe Haldeman

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers. — Joe Haldeman

Table of Contents — Joe Haldeman

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction. — Joe Haldeman

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch — Joe Haldeman

Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust. — Joe Haldeman

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube. — H.R. Haldeman

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning. — Joe Haldeman

But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards. — Joe Haldeman

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H.R. Haldeman

You can't make a date in death's dateless night. — Joe Haldeman

Heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure. — Joe Haldeman

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there. — Joe Haldeman

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit. — Joe Haldeman

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future. — Joe Haldeman

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe. — Joe Haldeman

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. — Joe Haldeman

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in. — H.R. Haldeman

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. — Joe Haldeman

That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off. — Joe Haldeman