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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Fashion, Pursuit, Monetary

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When does loyalty become martyrdom?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Loyalty, Doe, Martyrdom

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

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• Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Hurt, Average, People

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.107, 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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• 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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• 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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