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‘I am very old,’ she says. ‘I know a lot of names.’ What kind of game is Matjek playing here? The wind tugs at her hat, and the sand is warm under her toes. Plankton lights up in her footsteps, like stars. ‘What are you doing, Matjek?’ she
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It's hard to capture the mood/context for this quote, but the line:
‘It’s a disease, isn’t it?’ she says. ‘Trying to cling on to lost things.’
had a powerful resonance for me as I went through a tough loss.
If you read Robinson's Mars series, you may recall a bit where the characters are so old they basically different people, their memory does not have the capacity to hold on to much of their previous life, as if your first 100 years were your teen/young adult years, and you had forgotten them all to make room for the next 2-300 years worth of life memories...
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
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“So much technology, so little talent.”
― Rainbows End
― Rainbows End
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
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