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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Kim Stanley Robinson quotes

American Writer March 23, 1952

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They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them. Kim Stanley Robinson
In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. Kim Stanley Robinson
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. Kim Stanley Robinson
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
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia. Kim Stanley Robinson
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet. Kim Stanley Robinson
It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was flying by and they were getting old and nothing would ever come clear. Kim Stanley Robinson
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. Kim Stanley Robinson
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay..."
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I..."
You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head! Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth]..."
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead. Kim Stanley Robinson
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair. Kim Stanley Robinson
Maya felt the turbulent maelstrom of emotions inside her, stirred by all she had seen on her circumnavigation, by all that had happened and all that was going to happen... ah, the floods within her, the flash floods in her mind! If only she could accomplish the same yoking of her spirit that they had with this aquifer - drain it, control it, make it sane. But the hydrostatic pressures were so intense, the outbreaks when they came so fierce. No pipeline could hold it. Kim Stanley Robinson

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