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And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Robert Charles Wilson

Absence, Fear Of Death, Dread

Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.140, Macmillan

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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.

Robert Charles Wilson

Ignorance, Kind, Worst

Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century”, p.136, Macmillan

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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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I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Robert Charles Wilson

Knitting, Acting, Agents

"Axis". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2007.

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

Robert Charles Wilson

Believe, Evil, Don't Believe

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

Robert Charles Wilson

Running, Rivers, Awkward

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

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I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

Robert Charles Wilson

Eye, Looks, Littles

Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.80, 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.

Robert Charles Wilson

Art, Children, Lying

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

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I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Robert Charles Wilson

Decades, Deserve

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

Robert Charles Wilson

Believe, One Day, Seven

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

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These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

Robert Charles Wilson

War, Oil, Numbers

Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.30, Macmillan

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Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

Robert Charles Wilson

Color, Cadavers, Weight

Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.59, Macmillan

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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.

Robert Charles Wilson

New York, July, Knives

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

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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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What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Robert Charles Wilson

Oasis, Vacuums, Desert

Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.304, Macmillan

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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Robert Charles Wilson

Saint, Want, Autopsy

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

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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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Ecstasy hates company.

Robert Charles Wilson

Hate, Ecstasy, Company

Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.51, Macmillan

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

Robert Charles Wilson

Agnostic, Realist, Ifs

Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.357, Macmillan

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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Robert Charles Wilson

Stories, Want, Telling The Truth

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

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When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Robert Charles Wilson

Loyalty, Doe, Martyrdom

Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.240, Macmillan

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Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

Robert Charles Wilson

Taken, World, Ends

Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.31, Macmillan

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Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Robert Charles Wilson

Ignorance, Possibility Of Change, Understanding

Robert Charles Wilson (2013). “Blind Lake”, p.117, Hachette UK

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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.

Robert Charles Wilson

Imitation, Substitutes, Convincing

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

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Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Robert Charles Wilson

Men, Survival, Unorthodox

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