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Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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Kim Stanley Robinson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 23
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
World
Anticipated
Promise
Rich
Beauty
Happiness
Often
Anything
Real

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Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.
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History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.
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