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... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

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Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Peoria
Illinois
Sleep
Live
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Good
Things
Defy
Gravity
Precisely
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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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Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
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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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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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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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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
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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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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 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.
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If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.
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