Rome has an ambiance, puerile yet unmatchable. Rome hints a… - Robert Sheckley

" "
Rome has an ambiance, puerile yet unmatchable. Rome hints at the possibility of becoming the main actor in the drama of one’s own life. (The hint is false, of course; but the stolid northern cities do not even possess the hint.)

Robert Sheckley

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American science fiction author.

All quotes from Robert Sheckley Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Robert Sheckley:

Jack Vance Poul Anderson Iain Banks Philip K. Dick Michael Moorcock

Additional quotes by Robert Sheckley

Thus action serves as anodyne, whereas contemplation is revealed as the most direct form of involvement, and therefore much shunned by men.

The disease may not be too difficult to live with." "I thought you said it was terminal?" "So I did. But then, everything is terminal, even health, even life itself. The only question is how long, and in what manner.

For the question inevitably remains, is Polletti’s admission of fear a magnificent conquest of the unconquerable, or a mere admission of the inadmissable?

Rome has an ambiance, puerile yet unmatchable. Rome hints at the possibility of becoming the main actor in the drama of one’s own life. (The hint is … - Robert Sheckley

About Robert Sheckley

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Robert Sheckley