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1. "Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights." ~ Robert Sheckley
2. "- "What is reality?"- "One of the many possible illusions." ~ Robert Sheckley
3. "Sanity is a matter of consensus." ~ Robert Sheckley
4. "Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal." ~ Robert Sheckley
5. "I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough." ~ Robert Sheckley
6. "You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him." ~ Robert Sheckley
7. "Most of Seakirk's inhabitants were indifferent to the spectacle of corruption in high places and low, the gambling, the gang wars, the teen-age drinking. They were used to the sight of their roads crumbling, their ancient water mains bursting, their power plants breaking down, their decrepit old buildings falling apart, while the bosses built bigger homes, longer swimming pools and warmer stables. People were used to it." ~ Robert Sheckley
8. "Executive consumption was terribly trying, fantastically wearing. It was proper for a certain kind of man but perhaps he was not that kind." ~ Robert Sheckley
9. "It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by virtue of being free, is intractable and incalculable, a truly Godlike gift, the faculty that makes a state of freedom possible. To exist in a state of freedom is a wild, strange thing, and was clearly intended as such. But what to the religions do with this? They say, "Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us." The effrontery of it! God, who would not coerce a fly, is painted as a supreme slavemaster! In the fact of this, any creature with spirit must rebel, must serve God entirely of his own will and volition, or must not serve him at all, thus remaining true to himself and to the faculties God has given him." ~ Robert Sheckley
10. "A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind." ~ Robert Sheckley
11. "A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt." ~ Robert Sheckley
12. "Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal." ~ Robert Sheckley
13. "I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck." ~ Robert Sheckley
14. "I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them." ~ Robert Sheckley
15. "I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now." ~ Robert Sheckley
16. "I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it." ~ Robert Sheckley
17. "I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it." ~ Robert Sheckley
18. "I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory." ~ Robert Sheckley
19. "I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could." ~ Robert Sheckley
20. "The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it." ~ Robert Sheckley
21. "There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out." ~ Robert Sheckley
22. "As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me." ~ Robert Sheckley
23. "I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing." ~ Robert Sheckley
24. "It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due." ~ Robert Sheckley

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The road to paradise and damnation both look the same," Lord Yupos says softly. He sniffs in harshly as if trying to clear every bit of sadness from his nostrils. He looks at me now. "They are easily mistaken for the other."
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