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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

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It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

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There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.

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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.

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson
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Born: March 23, 1952 (age 72)
Bio: Kim Stanley Robinson is an American writer of speculative science-fiction. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy.
Known for:
  1. Red Mars (1992)
  2. Aurora (2015)
  3. Blue Mars (1996)
  4. Green Mars (1993)
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