Joe Haldeman Quotes
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?

-Joe Haldeman
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Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

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There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

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Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

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Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

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Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

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I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.

-Joe Haldeman
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