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Famous Kim Stanley Quotes
“A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.”
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.”
“Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.”
“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”
“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”
“First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.”
“Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder”
“In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”
“Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.”
“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.”
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.”
“Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.”
“It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.”
“Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.”