Remaking History and Other Stories Quotes

“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“He felt himself dissolving down into the great mass of the mountain, tumbling slowly down through the rock. The mountain mumbled in his ear, "I am." With a puff of its cheeks it blew him aloft, threw his atoms out into the sky. They tumbled off on the wind and dispersed to every point of the compass . . .until his body and California were contiguous, united, one. Only his vision remained separate.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“Art should be used to change things.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“To the locals, he realized, the Orkneys were the center of the world.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“Something strange happened to me out there in the desert; I don't know what.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“You can say that if you went crazy then you were crazy, and you couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. But that isn't the way it works, not in the real world. I mean, that's the sad thing about insane people; almost all of them know perfectly well that something is seriously wrong with them; that's what makes them so scared, so depressed. They know.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“I realized right then and there, the world was real. The World was real.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“a streetlight reflected off the black cobblestones . . . in such a way that there were thousands of brief white squiggles underfoot, looking like names engraved on black granite, as if the whole surface of the earth were paved by a single memorial.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“it would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the century's war dead. . . . he saw himself walking the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the whole park from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial was dotted with the black Vs of Vietnam Memorials, as if a flock of giant stealth birds had landed on it. All night he walked past black wing walls, moving west toward the white tomb on the river.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“A Vietnam Memorial's worth of civilians in an instantaneous flash. . . .
When the crew of the Enola Gay landed, they celebrated with a barbeque.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“Every day of the war, about 7,000 men along that front were killed or wounded.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“Why have a word for something they'd never seen?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories