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Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise Picture Quote #1

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters Picture Quote #1

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

She gave me a disdainful look. Please don’t make facile judgments about things you don’t understand Picture Quote #1

Evolution can’t be predicted, julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced Picture Quote #1

His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith Picture Quote #1

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change Picture Quote #1

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If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true Picture Quote #1

Don’t tell me. It changed your life. I was smiling. She smiled back. It didn’t even change my mind Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced Picture Quote #1

One doesn’t have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand Picture Quote #1

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I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely (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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) She gave me a disdainful look. Please don’t make facile judgments about things you don’t understand (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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 Quotes) If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) Don’t tell me. It changed your life. I was smiling. She smiled back. It didn’t even change my mind (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes) One doesn’t have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand (Robert Charles Wilson Quotes)

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