“When she realized what she was doing she snorted in disgust, at herself and at the pervasiveness of politics—how it could infect everything if you let it.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson , book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 387)

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