"The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time."

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Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.456, Spectra

Kim Stanley Robinson

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“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.”
“In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.”
“And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.”
“When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.”
“I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.”
“...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”
“I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.”

Source : David M. Shoup's speech to community college students at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California, on World Affairs Day, May 14, 1966.
“As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.”

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