"Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting."

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Source : FaceBook post by Robert Silverberg from May 16, 2014

Robert Silverberg

#Hands Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.”
“I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.”
“My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.”
“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.209, Da Capo Press
“I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.”
“The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.”
“I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.”
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

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