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The Years of Rice and Salt
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The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) (edit title/settings)

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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world... read more

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  • “There was no escaping the violence at the heart of things. Even the stones were mortal.”
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  • My feeling is that until the number of whole lives is greater than the number of shattered lives, we remain stuck in some kind of prehistory, unworthy of humanity’s great spirit. History as a story worth telling will only begin when the whole lives outnumber the wasted ones.
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  • This is what the human story is, not the emperors and the generals and their wars, but the nameless actions of people who are never written down, the good they do for others passed on like a blessing, just doing for strangers what your mother did for you, or not doing what she always spoke against. And all that carries forward and makes us what we are.”
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  • there is no clear sign of divinity, except for the existence of the cosmos in and of itself, which means that everything is holy, whether or not there be a god looking down on it.
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  • We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.”
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  • “When my days of rice and salt are over,” she would say, “I’ll copy out the sutras and pray all day. But until then we had all better get to the day’s work!”
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  • The universe itself is holy, human beings are sacred, all the sentient beings are sacred and can work to be enlightened, and one must only pay attention to daily life, the middle way, and give thanks and worship in daily action. It is the most unassuming of religions. Not even a religion, but more a way to live.”
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  • That means we have many generations to go before history begins. All the inequalities must end; all the surplus wealth must be equitably distributed. Until then we are still only some kind of gibbering monkey, and humanity, as we usually like to think of it, does not yet exist. To put it in religious terms, we are still indeed in the bardo, waiting to be born.
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  • I died as mineral and came back as plant, Died as plant and came back as animal, Died as animal and came back a man. Why should I fear? When have I ever lost by dying? Yet once more I shall die human, To soar with angels blessed above. And when I sacrifice my angel soul I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
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  • No single civilization could ever progress; it is always a matter of two or more colliding.
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  • the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.
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This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

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  1. Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0553109200
Page Count: 658

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  • Library of Congress: PS3568.O2893 Y43 2002
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Adults

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