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Dan Simmons Inspirational Quotes (70)

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The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.
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Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
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Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
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His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
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There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.
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There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
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Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
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The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
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A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
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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.
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Power: a currency that never went out of style.
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Life doesn't retreat.
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Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
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I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.
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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
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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
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The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
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Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
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The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.
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