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For of course it was impossible that she was doing it all without cause. That was the nature of power; when you had it no one was ever again simply a friend, simply a lover. Inevitably they all wanted things you could give them—if nothing else, the prestige of friendship with the powerful.

— Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars (1992)

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

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