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The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.
Robert Charles Wilson
What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
Robert Charles Wilson
There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
Robert Charles Wilson
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.
Robert Charles Wilson
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Robert Charles Wilson
"Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
Robert Charles Wilson
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
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
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
Goddamn you,” Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
Robert Charles Wilson
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
Robert Charles Wilson
An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
Robert Charles Wilson
When does loyalty become martyrdom?
Robert Charles Wilson
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Robert Charles Wilson
Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind-and some you carry with you, world without end.
Robert Charles Wilson
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.
Robert Charles Wilson
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
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
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Robert Charles Wilson
Ah, books.” Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.
Robert Charles Wilson
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
Robert Charles Wilson
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
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