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Dan Simmons Inspirational Quotes (70)

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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
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... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
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Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.
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The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
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The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
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Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.
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No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
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You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
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The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
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We are all eaters of souls.
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You have to live to really know things, my love
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The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
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Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
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Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?
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Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
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The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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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.
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Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
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