“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I don't understand why anybody old enough to know the score ever gets married, anyway. Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“Kafamda bir sessizlik yuvarı büyüyor, genişledikçe genişleyip bütün kafatasımı kaplayarak kocaman, bomboş bir alan yaratıyor. Yavaş ilerleyen bir gerçeklik sızıntısından muzdaribim. Şeylerin sadece sınırlarını görüyorum, özlerini değil, üstelik sınırlar bile belirsizleşiyor artık.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg
Born place: in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
Born date January 15, 1935
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“ორი ადამიანის მარტოობა სხვა არაფერია, თუ არა ნებაყოფლობითი ჯოჯოხეთი. ხშირად წყვილის ცხოვრებაში ოჯახის შექმნის დღიდან არსებობს პატარ-პატარა უთანხმოებები, რომლებზეც პარტნიორები ხმას არ იღებენ, ღრმად დარწმუნებულნი, რომ სიყვარული ერთიმეორის მიყოლებით ყველა ხინჯსა და პრობლემას უსიტყვოდ, უხმაუროდ გააქრობს. ეს პრობლემები სიჩუმესა და სიწყნარეში პირიქით – იზრდება და მძაფრდება, რამდენიმე წლის შემდეგ კი ფეთქდება და ერთ ჭერქვეშ ცხოვრებას შეუძლებელს ხდის.”
― Michel Houellebecq, quote from The Possibility of an Island
“Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.”
― J.I. Packer, quote from Knowing God
“In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Prisoner of Heaven
“Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses.”
― Samuel R. Delany, quote from Dhalgren
“On that ledge in the blackness, she'd truly recognized for the first time in her life that some creatures who went bump in the night might hate that they did.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
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