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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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  Impact, Events, Video

  "Memory Wire". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 1987.

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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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  Angel, Kind, Ass

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.204, Macmillan

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• We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

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  Expectations, Doe

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.451, Macmillan

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• The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...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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  Suicide, Atheist, Stars

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.191, Macmillan

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• I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

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  Believe, Evil, Don't Believe

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.225, Macmillan

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• [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

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  Interesting, Boards, News

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

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  Fire, Evolution, Used

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.80, Macmillan

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

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  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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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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  Imitation, Substitutes, Convincing

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.238, Tor Books

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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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  Wise, Children, Parent

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.593, Macmillan

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• Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

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  Book, Ocean, World

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.128, Macmillan

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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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  Order, Needs, Certainty

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

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  Decades, Deserve

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.175, Macmillan

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• The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

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  Imagination, Vision, Desert

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.157, Macmillan

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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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  Garden, Self, Order

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.151, Macmillan

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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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  Doe, Boards, Pieces

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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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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  Suicide, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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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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  War, Men, Voice

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

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  Redneck, Class, America

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• The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

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  World

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.62, Macmillan

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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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  Running, Rivers, Awkward

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.82, Macmillan

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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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  Art, Children, Lying

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.156, Macmillan

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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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  Moving, Hands, Talking

  "Blind Lake". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2003.

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• Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

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  Saint, Want, Autopsy

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.75, Macmillan

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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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  Believe, One Day, Seven

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.112, Macmillan

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