1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein


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    A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.

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    Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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    If time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations -- conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

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    Never pick up a stray kitten... unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

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