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To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. - [Reality] "Lot ninety-seven," the auctioneer announced. "A boy." - Citizen of the Galaxy [Books (First Lines)] If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman. - Double Star (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] I always get the shakes before a drop. - Starship Troopers [Books (First Lines)] Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. - Stranger in a Strange Land [Books (First Lines)] Butterflies are not insects. . . . They are self-propelled flowers. - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls [Butterflies] One winter before the Six Weeks War my tomcat, Petronius the Arbiter, and I lived in an old farmhouse in Connecticut. - The Door into Summer [Books (First Lines)] I see in Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect--and tax--public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure. - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Books (First Lines)] If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. - The Notebooks of Lazarus Long [Truth] "He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter." - The Number of the Beast (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Were they truly intelligent? By themselves, that is? - The Puppet Masters [Books (First Lines)] At first, Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl taking her clothes off. - Year of the Jackpot, a novella [Books (First Lines)]
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