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Robert Charles Wilson é um autor de ficção científica americano-canadense. Ganhou o prêmio Hugo de literatura pelo romance Spin, além de muitos outros prêmios. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Dezembro 1953
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“Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livro Blind Lake

Fonte: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 263)

“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives…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.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livro Spin

Fonte: Spin (2005), p. 191

“This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.”

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Robert Charles Wilson livro Blind Lake

Fonte: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 32 (p. 347)

“Goddamn you,” Jacob said.
“There’s no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.”

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

“The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it—well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn’t be placed at my feet.
The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.”

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

Fonte: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 109

“Ecstasy hates company.”

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The Inner Inner City (p. 72)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“You learning anything from this?”

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Robert Charles Wilson livro Axis

Tyrell asked.
Turk stood up and brushed his hands. “Yeah. I'm learning that I know even less than I thought I did.”
Fonte: Axis (2007), Chapter 3 (p. 36)

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

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Robert Charles Wilson livro Spin

Fonte: Spin (2005), p. 204

“Violence is the great attractor of human history.”

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Robert Charles Wilson

Fonte: Burning Paradise (2013), Chapter 29 (p. 278)

“The only reason you can’t see how crazy this is is because we’ve been neck-deep in crazy for years.”

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Fonte: Burning Paradise (2013), Chapter 22 (p. 222)

“So are they some form of life, or are they machines?”

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“At the chemical level all living things can be construed as machines.”
Fonte: Burning Paradise (2013), Chapter 18 (pp. 190-191)

“So we can trust each other.”

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“It’s the rest of the world we can’t be sure about.”
Fonte: Burning Paradise (2013), Chapter 14 (p. 143)

“Not all idealism is fake.”

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Fonte: Last Year (2016), Chapter 11 (p. 192)