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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: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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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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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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An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
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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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We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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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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What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
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