Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Robert Charles Wilson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whittier
California
Wear
Clothes
Lying
Transparently
Art
Brightly
Children
Natures
Like
Colored
Adulthood
Deceit
More quotes by Robert Charles Wilson
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
Robert Charles Wilson
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Robert Charles Wilson
When does loyalty become martyrdom?
Robert Charles Wilson
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
Robert Charles Wilson
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.
Robert Charles Wilson
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
Robert Charles Wilson
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Robert Charles Wilson
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
Robert Charles Wilson
Ecstasy hates company.
Robert Charles Wilson
Goddamn you, Jacob said. There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
Robert Charles Wilson
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
Robert Charles Wilson
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
Robert Charles Wilson
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. Corruption is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
Robert Charles Wilson
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
Robert Charles Wilson
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
Robert Charles Wilson
You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
Robert Charles Wilson
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
Robert Charles Wilson
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
Robert Charles Wilson
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.
Robert Charles Wilson
What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
Robert Charles Wilson
