It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: art writing communication arrogance clarity



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The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: lying sins-of-omission



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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

Robert A. Heinlein


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Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: sex dignity lady



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Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: arts government support libertarianism funding diy grant self-support anti-nea



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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: progress technology laziness invention innovation



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어처구니가 없군요. 배보다 큰 것은 존재하지 않아요.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: awareness



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...the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.

Robert A. Heinlein


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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein


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Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: capital-punishment



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