Larry Niven
Writer
1938-04-30
Books by Larry Niven
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Rainbow Mars
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N-Space
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Quotes by Larry Niven
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It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
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Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.
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Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
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Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
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There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.
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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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