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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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Whittier
California
Stories
Truth
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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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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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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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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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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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What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
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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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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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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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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
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Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
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