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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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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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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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We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
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