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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

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
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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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We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
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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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Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
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There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
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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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Goddamn you, Jacob said. There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
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Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
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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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Ecstasy hates company.
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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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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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We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
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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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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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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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It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
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