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Quotes from The Perseids and Other Stories — Robert Charles Wilson

born 1953 Canada

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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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.

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“Ah, books.” Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. “They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.”

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

And death?
I don’t fear death.
I dread the absence of it.

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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.

The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Attribution

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