Star of Gypsies Quotes

“If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star of Gypsies

“No matter. The fact that we're fighting a losing battle does not excuse us from fighting it. The great human achievement is to postpone the moment of defeat as long as possible.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star Of Gypsies

“Just because someone has lived a long time doesn't make him a sage. You accumulate smarts up to a point, and then you stop, and often you start to slide backward.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star Of Gypsies

“It serves always as a reminder to me that the dream of perfection is a fool's fantasy, that there is always some loathsome canker in the sweetest bud.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star Of Gypsies

“Indeed it is all part of your education, everything. You are never taught anything by hiding in the dark and sucking on your thumb. It is in the water, and only in the water, that you learn how to swim.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star Of Gypsies

“The universe seemed to me to be like a great hymn of joy, crying out in beauty from a thousand throats at once.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star Of Gypsies

“This was in the twentieth or perhaps the twenty-first century, when all knowledge became available at the push of a button and every jackass began to think that he knew everything.”
― Robert Silverberg, Star of Gypsies