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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. (Dan Simmons)
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. View quote
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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. View quote
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Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them. View quote
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No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing. View quote
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. View quote
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn't been any so far. View quote
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De Soya blinks. "Suicide is a mortal sin,” he says. On the screen the girl nods seriously. "Yes,” she says, "but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.”. View quote
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. View quote
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Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines. View quote
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. (Dan Simmons)
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. View quote
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. View quote
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. View quote
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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. View quote
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Power: a currency that never went out of style. View quote
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references. View quote
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I thought-To lose all this forever? And I hallucinated Aenea's voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love. View quote
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I am of no faith,” said Aenea. "If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural. View quote
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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person's attempt to understand the universe. View quote
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I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis,” he said in low, tight tones. "To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell. (Dan Simmons)
It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war. View quote
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Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient. View quote
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead. View quote
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And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone's control. The essence of nanotech life's evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form. Humanity, you mean, said Lourdusamy. Precisely. View quote
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