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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Kim Stanley Robinson quotes about history

American Writer March 23, 1952

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Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than..."
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. Kim Stanley Robinson
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history. Kim Stanley Robinson
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow..."
...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing. Kim Stanley Robinson
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything. Kim Stanley Robinson

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