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

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Spin

Változat: 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.
Forrás: Spin (2005), p. 438

“I won’t put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Darwinia

Forrás: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 15 (p. 136)

“What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Vortex

Forrás: Vortex (2011), Chapter 32 (p. 327)

“You have a knack for turning your eyes inside out, so you see them. And they see you. And you're afraid, because they’re from the uncreated future, from a place, I think, where the human race has reached its last incarnation, from the end of the material world. Perhaps the end of all worlds. And they’re sad—melancholy is the better word—because you're like an angel to them, the angel of the past, the angel of infinite possibility. Possibility lost. The road not taken.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

The Observer (p. 111)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“The most fundamental parental urge is the urge to nurture and protect. To grieve for a child is to admit ultimate impotence. You can’t protect what goes into the ground. You can’t tuck a blanket around a grave.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv The Chronoliths

Forrás: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 13 (p. 156)

“That worries me. One death is attrition; two would look like incompetence—on someone’s part.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Bios

Forrás: Bios (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 37)

“The past was gone, the dead were dead and did not speak, and everybody dies; one day Oberg would be dead and silent, too, and that was as it should be: the broad and welcoming ocean of oblivion. It made life bearable. It was sacred. It should not be tampered with.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Memory Wire

Forrás: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 20 (p. 179)

“Perfect aristocratic tone, Degrandpre thought: insult and menace in a single phrase.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Bios

Forrás: Bios (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 106)

““Don’t tell me. It changed your life.” I was smiling.
She smiled back. “It didn’t even change my mind.””

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Robert Charles Wilson

Divided by Infinity (p. 180)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“One doesn’t have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

The Observer (p. 112)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“She understood too much. She understood that she had reached her destiny point, that time and the circumstances of her life had conspired to bring her to this place. For one ecstatic moment she was the axis on which the stars revolved.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Bios

Forrás: Bios (1999), Chapter 15 (p. 140)

“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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Spin

Forrás: Spin (2005), p. 59

“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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

The Observer (p. 113)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

““You think Wexler is lying?”
“I think he’s fallible,” Byron had replied.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Memory Wire

Forrás: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Axis

Forrás: Axis (2007), Chapter 35 (p. 348)

““Wow,” Sue said. “You actually stole this?”
“We don’t use that word,” Elaine told her. “Chris has an unnamed high-level source.””

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Blind Lake

Forrás: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 20 (p. 238)

“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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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Blind Lake

Forrás: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 258)

“After a gaudy sunset that land became an immense, limitless darkness. Too large, Guilford thought, too empty, and too plain a token of the indifferent machinery of God.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Darwinia

Forrás: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 8 (p. 80)

“His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City’s genetic continuity, his viral gametes combining with others in the bodies of the night feeders to become morphologically active. It was abstractly pleasing, though, to realize he had cast his own essence into the ocean of probability, where it might come floating back unknown to him, as a fresh citizen with new and unique ideas and odors.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Blind Lake

Forrás: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 358)

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

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Blind Lake

Forrás: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 15 (p. 179)

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

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Memory Wire

Forrás: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 4 (p. 33)

“He had come out of the war twice-decorated and with a thoughtful respect for the horrors of combat. He had seen terrible things, participated in terrible things…but that was the nature of war, and it was not something you could enter into halfway. War was a state of mind, war was all or nothing.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Memory Wire

Forrás: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 15 (p. 134)

“It never fails to astonish me,” Carol said. “The tenacity of love.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Spin

Forrás: Spin (2005), p. 403

“An honest book is almost as good as a friend.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Spin

Forrás: Spin (2005), p. 261

“The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal—maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

Afterword (p. 220)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“When does loyalty become martyrdom?”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv The Chronoliths

Forrás: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 19 (p. 240)

“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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv The Chronoliths

Forrás: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 8 (p. 112)

“A man who submits himself wholeheartedly to God might handle them and not be harmed. That was the faith my father had professed. Certainly he trusted God, in his own case, and believed God manifested Himself in the rolled eyes of his congregants and in their babble of incomprehensible tongues. Trust and be saved, was his philosophy. And yet in the end it was the snakes that killed him. I wondered which element of the calculation had ultimately failed him—human faith or divine patience.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Forrás: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), pp. 355-356

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

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Forrás: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 216

“Must be a full moon,” she said.”Lawrence is turning into an asshole.”

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Robert Charles Wilson könyv A Bridge of Years

Forrás: A Bridge of Years (1991), Chapter 8 (p. 143)

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