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Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: [H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.

[H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: [A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

[A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

Slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.

Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Even a dry well may freshen.

Even a dry well may freshen.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: There is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

There is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

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

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: When does loyalty become martyrdom?

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.

What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: 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.

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.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

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

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them ...

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them ...

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: knowledge wasn't created but discovered;

knowledge wasn't created but discovered;

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

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 quotes: To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them;

But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them;

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

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

Robert Charles Wilson quotes: This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.