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Kim Stanley  Quotes
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...

—Kim Stanley

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AnxietyInsomniaRestlessness
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health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection,...

—Kim Stanley

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HappinessNecessitiesSimplicity
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…knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.

—Kim Stanley

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He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but...

—Kim Stanley

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ScienceScience-Fiction
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The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

—Kim Stanley

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InterpretationMissunderstandingTruth
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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...

—Kim Stanley

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There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it’s all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring....

—Kim Stanley

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HungerMysterySpring
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They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

—Kim Stanley

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BehaviorPhilosophyScience
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All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

—Kim Stanley

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BuddhismChangeInspirational
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The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of...

—Kim Stanley

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ExperienceFeelingLife
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The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by...

—Kim Stanley

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MaturityVitalityWisdom
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You can’t choose your childhood, it’s just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that’s really what (makes you).

—Kim Stanley

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ChildhoodChoiceReality
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Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler...

—Kim Stanley

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Choice
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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

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DisillusionmentDreamsKnowledge
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of...

—Kim Stanley

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CorporationsDemocracyFeudalism
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You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

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DeterminationInspirationalPerseverance
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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

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FaithReligion
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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

—Kim Stanley

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GovernmentLawMoney
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so why don’t you folks start and we’ll dance till dawn and tomorrow scatter on the winds and down the sides of this great mountain, to carry the gift everywhere.

—Kim Stanley

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CapitalismRevolutionSocial-Change
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And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that...

—Kim Stanley

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CommunicationFriendshipIdentity
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It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

—Kim Stanley

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ActionWords
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Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

—Kim Stanley

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EvolutionIntelligence
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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...

—Kim Stanley

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Politics
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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation;...

—Kim Stanley

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HumansKim-Stanley-RobisonRobots
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That’s a large part of what economics is – people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which...

—Kim Stanley

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Economics
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For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to...

—Kim Stanley

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ArtLanguageScience
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Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought...

—Kim Stanley

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EconomicsPsychologyScience
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And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

—Kim Stanley

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LibrarianLibrariansSex-Appeal
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So who else did you convince?””Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica.”Roy laughed heartily....

—Kim Stanley

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BoldBoldnessDreams
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Childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.

—Kim Stanley

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AgeDevelopmentFormative-Years
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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...

—Kim Stanley

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CapitalismEmploymentSlavery
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no one else can live your life for you.

—Kim Stanley

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Life-Lessons
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