Dan Simmons quotes

We are all eaters of souls. (Dan Simmons)
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? View quote
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Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. View quote
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It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. View quote
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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. View quote
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. View quote
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. View quote
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There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. View quote
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I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it. View quote
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In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love. View quote
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. (Dan Simmons)
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. View quote
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You have to live to really know things, my love. View quote
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Its hard to die. Harder to live. View quote
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Mobs have passions, not brains. View quote
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. View quote
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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony. View quote
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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. View quote
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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. View quote
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. View quote
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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. (Dan Simmons)
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. View quote
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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion. View quote
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. View quote
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer. View quote
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