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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/the-conversation-was-mesmerizing-not-for-its-content-but-for-the/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

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## More by Robert Charles Wilson

> [Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/consciousness-according-to-current-scientific-thought-was-something/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/here-she-was-back-in-the-brightly-lit-world-she-had-been-avoiding-for/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/these-movies-belonged-to-the-twentieth-and-early-twenty-first/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [When does loyalty become martyrdom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/when-does-loyalty-become-martyrdom/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-thought-of-einstein-and-his-insistence-that-no-particular-point-of/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/what-we-cannot-remember-we-must-rediscover/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/the-universe-it-seemed-was-full-to-brimming-with-lonesome-places/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/fifteen-minutes-shy-of-two-o-clock-the-thick-of-the-night-the-zone-of/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/it-was-the-kind-of-experience-molly-said-that-would-grow-calluses-on/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-appreciated-her-bluntness-maybe-it-came-with-her-sudden-sobriety/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't sober for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-had-an-idea-that-sobriety-was-a-weapon-i-thought-it-would-give-me/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/john-scalzi-is-a-fresh-and-appealing-new-voice-and-old-man-s-war-is/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/certainly-it-s-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-lives-of-the-secular-ancients/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-spent-a-lot-of-time-discussing-cosmology-first-i-think-that-was/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

> [It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/it-was-possible-at-last-to-hear-the-silence-to-appreciate-that-there/)

[Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/)

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