The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

—Robert J. Sawyer

About Robert J. Sawyer

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Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian and American writer of science fiction. He is the author of 25 published novels, and his short fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, and Nature, in addition to...

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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

—Robert J. Sawyer

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

—Robert J. Sawyer

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

—Robert J. Sawyer

Honor does not have to be defended.

—Robert J. Sawyer

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

—Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds—sexandviolence—until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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