What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a giant mill grinding out gossip. And so I could be the story of the man who rode high and fell hard, and had his spirit broken and crawled off into a hole like a dog, to die as soon as he could manage it. Or I could be the story of a man who rode high and fell hard, and then got up defiant, and walked away in a new direction.


Book 4: "The Alchemist", § 11 - The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a...

What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a...

What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a...

What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a...