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Quotes from Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America — Robert Charles Wilson

born 1953 Canada

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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don’t need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

“Truth is a perilous commodity,” Julian admitted, “but so is ignorance, Adam—more so.”

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Charles Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.