Murray Leinster Quotes

• Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

  Murray Leinster

  Facts, Impossible, Stills

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 9, 1964.

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• Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

  Murray Leinster

  Adventure, Waiting, Toss

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• It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

  Murray Leinster

  Insanity, Cosmos, Symptoms

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 4, 1964.

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• Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

  Murray Leinster

  Children, Ideas, Justice

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.141, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

  Murray Leinster

  Appreciation, Men, Doe

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

  Murray Leinster

  Nonsensical, Happenings

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 22, 1964.

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• The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

  Murray Leinster

  Thinking, Firsts, Cooperation

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, Baen Books

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• It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

  Murray Leinster

  Artist, Peanuts, Outrage

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 21, 1964.

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• The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

  Murray Leinster

  People, Secret, Quarrels

  Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC

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• He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

  Murray Leinster

  World, Talent, Lost

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• There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

  Murray Leinster

  Girl, Men, Reason

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 19, 1964.

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