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It was as though our invaders had passed the word through the galaxies: SEE OLD EARTH NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
— Robert Silverberg
He was only now outgrowing his playboy phase, groping his way out of frivolity the way others might grope their way out of atheism.
— Robert Silverberg
Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.
— Robert Silverberg
I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.
— Robert Silverberg
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
— Robert Silverberg
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
— Robert Silverberg
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
— Robert Silverberg
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
— Robert Silverberg
As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would
— Robert Silverberg
[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.
— Robert Silverberg
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
— Robert Silverberg
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
— Robert Silverberg
Part of the prejudice thing is that the victim has to be somebody weaker than you in numbers, but somebody you secretly admire or fear.
— Robert Silverberg
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
— Robert Silverberg
Basil Donovan was drunk again.
— Robert Silverberg
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
— Robert Silverberg
Any sinner can find redemption if the yield of his sin is spectacular enough. Our
— Robert Silverberg
I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
— Robert Silverberg
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
— Robert Silverberg
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
— Robert Silverberg
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
— Robert Silverberg
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.
— Robert Silverberg
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
— Robert Silverberg
I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
— Robert Silverberg
Gods are not granted the power of choice; it is the price and the wonder of their godhead.
— Robert Silverberg
I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.
— 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.
— Robert Silverberg
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
— Robert Silverberg
To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
— Robert Silverberg