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““Maybe you were better off not knowing.”
“Ignorance is not bliss.””

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 29 (p. 245)

“For them, the idea of forgetting was indistinguishable from the idea of death. To pass out of memory was to pass out of the world. To conserve memory was to confer immortality.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 18 (p. 161)

“Last week the doctor at the Tilson Rural Clinic had shown him his X-rays, the too-easy-to-interpret shadows on his liver and lungs. Guilford had declined an offer of surgery and and last-gasp radiation therapy. This horse was too old to beat.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Darwinia

Epilogue (p. 316)
Darwinia (1998)

“[There was] 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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Axis

Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 40)

“Since Deacon Hollingshead’s arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.
“Corruption” is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.”

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 317

“Julian read the Bible as if it were a work of contemporary fiction, open to criticism or even revision. Once, when I queried him about the purpose of his unusual reinterpretations, he said to me, “I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and makes life more pleasurable for mankind, not worse. I want a Bible in which Isaac leaps up from the sacrificial stone and chokes the life out of Abraham, to punish him for the abject and bloody sin of Obedience. I want a Bible in which Lazarus is dead and stubborn about it, rather than standing to attention at the beck and call of every passing Messiah.””

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), pp. 126-127

“I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Spin

Source: Spin (2005), p. 225

“Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Spin

Source: Spin (2005), p. 1 (opening words)

“I want them not to forget. Which is, I suppose, what all aged veterans want. But they’ll forget. Of course they will. And their children will know less of us than they do, and their children’s children will find us barely imaginable.
Which is as it should be. You can’t stop time.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre The Chronoliths

Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 28 (pp. 314-315)

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

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 361

““We might have destroyed ourselves, but at least it would have been our own fault.”
“Would it, though? Whose fault exactly? Yours? Mine? No, it would have been the result of several billion human beings making relatively innocuous choices: to have kids, drive a car to work, keep their job, solve the short-term problems first. When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you’re at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.””

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Spin

Source: Spin (2005), p. 128

“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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Vortex

Source: Vortex (2011), Chapter 32 (p. 304)

“I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre The Chronoliths

Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 14 (p. 175)

“Now as ever, he was startled by the wild exuberance of the twentieth century. All these lights! Colored neon and glaring filaments, powered, he had learned, but mechanical dams spanning rivers hundreds of miles away. And most of this—astonishingly—in the name of advertising.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre A Bridge of Years

Source: A Bridge of Years (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 148)

“To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Vortex

Source: Vortex (2011), Chapter 9 (p. 118)

“He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Darwinia

Epilogue (p. 318)
Darwinia (1998)

“Try to imagine that Minkowski cube, Ray said, as a block of liquid water freezing (as contrary as this seems) from the bottom up. The progression of the freeze represents at least our human experience of the march of time. What is frozen is past, immutable, changeless. What is liquid is future, indeterminate, uncertain. We live on the crystallizing boundary.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre The Chronoliths

Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 9 (pp. 114-115)

“To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.”

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The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), pp. 110-111

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

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 35

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

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 389

“Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart which carried a man into the future—and it fascinated me—but the Archive itself was a Time Machine in everything but name. Here were voices preserved on browning paper like pressed flowers, whispering apostasies into the ear of a new century.”

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 332

““You learning anything from this?” Tyrell asked.
Turk stood up and brushed his hands. “Yeah. I'm learning that I know even less than I thought I did.””

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Axis

Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 3 (p. 36)

“Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin’s age possess no context; one video event is much like another.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre The Chronoliths

Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 3 (p. 32)

“We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Spin

Source: Spin (2005), p. 451

“Sometimes he wears the crown,” Magnus Stepney once remarked, “and sometimes, by the grace of God, he takes the damned thing off.”

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 377

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

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Axis

Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 8 (p. 107)

“But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livre Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 174)

“The rooms were confining, the windows minuscule, the ceilings perilously low. She could not have spent much money on the furnishings, which were shabby, threadbare, nicked, and splintered—I had seen better furniture abandoned at Montreal curbsides.
But if her book-cases were humble, they were bowed under the weight of surprisingly many books—almost as many as there had been in the library of the Duncan and Crowley Estate back in Williams Ford. It seemed to me a treasure more estimable than any fine sofa or plush footstool, and worth all the rough economies surrounding it.”

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

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), pp. 146-147

“Don’t despise life.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

Divided by Infinity (p. 173)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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