"Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough."

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Source : Robert Silverberg (2011). “Nightwings”, p.49, Hachette UK

Robert Silverberg

#Past Quotes #Enough Quotes #Endeavor Quotes

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!”
“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”
“Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.”
“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”

Source : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
“Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.”
“When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.”
“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

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