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Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Robert Charles Wilson
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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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