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There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
Robert Charles Wilson
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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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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.
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I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.
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It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
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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.
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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
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Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
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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.
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