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What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

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
Rediscover
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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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You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
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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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Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The self was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
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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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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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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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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
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Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
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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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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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There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
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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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Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.
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Ecstasy hates company.
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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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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 .
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