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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Robert Charles Wilson

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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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Science Fiction Writer
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California
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We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
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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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One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.
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What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.
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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
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We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
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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.
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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
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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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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
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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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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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Goddamn you, Jacob said. There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
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What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
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Ecstasy hates company.
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Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.
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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
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We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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