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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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California
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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 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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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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You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
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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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Ecstasy hates company.
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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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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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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
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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 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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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
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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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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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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
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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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Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
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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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