Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

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• To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

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  Queens, Pawns, Capture

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

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• We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

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  Fall, Land, Raindrops

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.428, Macmillan

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• Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

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  Fall, Land

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.1, Macmillan

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• There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

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  No Point, Ifs

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.224, Macmillan

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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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  Stars, Father, Unique

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.235, Macmillan

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• To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

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  Memories, Rain, Heart

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan

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• You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Matter

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.41, Macmillan

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• From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.

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  Real, Taken, Clouds

  "Vortex". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2011.

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• Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

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  Writing, Promise, Cash

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.114, Macmillan

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• It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

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  Light, Appreciate, Silence

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.272, Macmillan

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• There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

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  Stars, Years, Mountain

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.286, Tor Books

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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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  Doe, Fiction, Youth

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.124, Macmillan

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• There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

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  Stupid, Smart, Men

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.81, Macmillan

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• We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

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  Believe, Taught Us, Long

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.163, Macmillan

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• This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

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  Annoying, Untrue, Has Beens

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.222, Macmillan

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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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  Heaven, Damnation, Forests

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

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• An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

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  Book, Honest

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.261, Macmillan

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• We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

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  Stranger, Born

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.438, Macmillan

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• What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

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  Remember

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

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  Smart, Stupid, People

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• One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

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  Order, Looks

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

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  Self, Justice, Causes

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

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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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  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 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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• 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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