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Robert Charles Wilson44,302 ratings, 4.04 average rating, 3,006 reviews
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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.”
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“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
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“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd say, "Left index finger to right index finger straight across your heart, that's the history of the Earth. You know what human history is? Human history is the nail on your right-hand index finger. Not even the whole nail. Just that little white part. The part you clip off when it gets too long. That's the discovery of fire and the invention of writing and Galileo and Newton and the moon landing and 9/11 and last week and this morning. Compared to evolution we're newborns. Compared to geology, we barely exist”
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“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.”
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“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.”
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“When people come to understand how big the universe is and how short a human life is, their hearts cry out. Sometimes it’s a shout of joy: I think that’s what it was for Jason; I think that’s what I didn’t understand about him. He had the gift of awe. But for most of us it’s a cry of terror. The terror of extinction, the terror of meaninglessness. Our hearts cry out. Maybe to God, or maybe just to break the silence.”
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“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.”
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“Ci sono diversi tipi di tempo. Quello con cui misuriamo la nostra vita. I mesi e gli anni. O il grande tempo, quello che muove, solleva le montagne e crea le stelle. O tutte le cose che accadono tra due battiti cardiaci. È difficile vivere in tutti questi tempi. Ed è facile dimenticare che li si vive tutti quanti.”
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“The easiest kind of prophecy,” he said, “is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.”
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“The Spin’s not just some abstract phenomenon—you guys made them look the beast in the eye, and good for you, I guess, but if your project goes wrong you steal that courage away again, and now it’s worse because they’ve seen the thing. And they will not love you for failing, Tyler, because it will leave them more frightened than they’ve ever been.”
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“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.”
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“Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.”
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“The transition is only a door,” she said. “A door into a room. A room you’ve never been in, though you might have caught a glimpse of it from time to time. Now it’s the room where you live; it’s yours, it belongs to you. It has certain qualities you can’t change—you can’t make it bigger or smaller. But how you furnish it is up to you.”
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“Tutti noi veniamo al mondo estranei a noi stessi e agli altri, e raramente veniamo presentati ufficialmente.”
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“I recalled Mark Twain’s reply to a similar question: Heaven, for the climate. Hell, for the company.”
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“In much of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, sturdy majorities considered the whole thing a U.S. plot or accident, probably a failed attempt to create some kind of SDI defense system. I had once asked Jason why this was. He said, “Consider what we’re asking them to believe. We’re talking about, globally, a population with an almost pre-Newtonian grasp of astronomy.”
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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. It’s hard to live in all those kinds of time. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.”
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“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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