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I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against. ↗

— David Niven

#always #anyone #bad #bad girl #bad girls

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. ↗

— David Niven

#always #creeping #day #felt #frankly

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

I am a recovering alcoholic. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#am #i #i am #recovering

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. ↗

— Larry Niven

#art form #barnes #form #life #like

I do not believe they've run out of surprises. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #out #run #surprises

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #passing #privacy #suspect

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself. ↗

— Larry Niven

#brighter #i #life #lot #my life

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ↗

— George Orwell

#being human #does #essence #human #perfection