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Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
Robert Charles Wilson
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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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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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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
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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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These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.
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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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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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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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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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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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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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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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It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
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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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When does loyalty become martyrdom?
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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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Goddamn you, Jacob said. There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
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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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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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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
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