Frasi di Robert Charles Wilson
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Robert Charles Wilson è un autore di fantascienza canadese.

✵ 15. Dicembre 1953
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Robert Charles Wilson frasi celebri

“Magari ci saremmo distrutti con le nostre stesse mani ma almeno sarebbe stata colpa nostra.”

Robert Charles Wilson libro Spin

«Lo sarebbe stato davvero? Colpa di chi, esattamente? Tua? Mia? No, sarebbe stato il risultato di diversi miliardi di esseri umani che hanno fatto scelte relativamente innocue: avere figli, andare a lavoro in auto, cercare di mantenere quel lavoro, risolvere prima di tutto i problemi dell’immediato futuro. Quando arrivi al punto in cui anche le azioni più banali sono punibili con la morte della specie, allora evidentemente, evidentemente, sei in una fase critica, un tipo diverso di punto di non ritorno.»
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Robert Charles Wilson: Frasi in inglese

“There’s no point living if you can’t, at least occasionally, live.”

Robert Charles Wilson libro The Chronoliths

Origine: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 18 (p. 224)

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

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

Origine: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 234

“I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?”

Robert Charles Wilson libro The Chronoliths

Origine: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 15 (p. 189)

“There’s no drug that’ll make a stupid man smart.”

Robert Charles Wilson libro Axis

Origine: Axis (2007), Chapter 6 (p. 81)

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

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

Origine: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 57

“Ziegler said, “You know the story in the Bible, the story of Abraham and Isaac?”
“Of course.”
“God instructs Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice. Isaac makes it as far as the chopping block before God changes his mind.”
Yes. Jacob had always imagined God a little appalled at Abraham’s willingness to cooperate.
Ziegler said, “What’s the moral of the story?”
“Faith.”
“Hardly,” Ziegler said. “Faith has nothing to do with it. Abraham never doubted the existence of God—how could he? The evidence was ample. His virtue wasn’t faith, it was fealty. He was so simplemindedly loyal that he would commit even this awful, terrible act. He was the perfect foot soldier. The ideal pawn. Abraham’s lesson: fealty is rewarded. Not morality. The fable makes morality contingent. Don’t go around killing innocent people, that is, unless you're absolutely certain God want you to. It’s a lunatic’s credo.
“Isaac, on the other hand, learns something much more interesting. He learns that neither God nor his own father can be trusted. Maybe it makes him a better man than Abraham. Suppose Isaac grows up and fathers a child of his own, and God approaches him and makes the same demand. One imagines Isaac saying, ’No. You can take him if you must, but I won’t slaughter my son for you.’ He’s not the good and faithful servant his father was. But he is, perhaps, a more wholesome human being.””

Robert Charles Wilson

The Fields of Abraham (pp. 21-22)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.”

Robert Charles Wilson libro Axis

Origine: Axis (2007), Chapter 7 (pp. 92-93)

“Time is a vastness,” he said finally. “We tend to underestimate it.”

Robert Charles Wilson libro A Bridge of Years

Origine: A Bridge of Years (1991), Chapter 13 (p. 244)

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

Robert Charles Wilson

Divided by Infinity (p. 195)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

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