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Heinlein, again.

Posted by Gimwinkle on 2013-April-16 18:45:54 EDT, Tuesday
In reply to They are the leaders of the world for me posted by luvme2times on 2013-April-16 07:41:10 EDT, Tuesday
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From Stranger In A Strange Land

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"

And now, I quote you:

They matter more than me to me.

Almost the same quote as Heinlein's, eh? Just different words.

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