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

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Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.80, Macmillan

Robert Charles Wilson

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“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
“I do not believe having a baby is punishment.”
“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”
“Rip Torn thought I was being a wise guy, and one afternoon he got pretty angry with me after telling me to do something and he thought I was pretending like I didn't know what he meant.But he was very frustrated. He was very frustrated as a director in trying to get his little theater group going. It was called The Sanctuary Theater Workshop, I think, and he wanted to do these classical plays by people like August Strindberg, and he was fighting hard to get his show up and be good and be professional.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
“Children be comforted, I am well.”

Source : Last words, 1809.
“Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and youâ€™ll catch more flies, if nothing else.”

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