Neal Stephenson Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. October 31, 1959
Birthday: October 31
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.
source: Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.313, Atlantic Books Ltd
topic: Dirty, Knives, Two, Dirty Water, Two Ways
