Quote

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?

Dan Simmons

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Peoria
Illinois
Emotion
Tinged
Trust
Storage
Memories
Confusing
Human
Subjective
Humans
Rely
Driven
Mass
Chemically
Beings
Neurological

More quotes by Dan Simmons

Image
The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
Dan Simmons
Image
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
Dan Simmons
Image
Power: a currency that never went out of style.
Dan Simmons
Image
I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's All You Need Is Love anymore without wincing.
Dan Simmons
Image
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Dan Simmons
Image
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.
Dan Simmons
Image
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
Dan Simmons
Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
Dan Simmons
Image
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
Dan Simmons
Image
Its hard to die. Harder to live
Dan Simmons
Image
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
Dan Simmons
Image
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.
Dan Simmons
Image
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Dan Simmons
Image
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
Dan Simmons
Image
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
Dan Simmons
Image
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
Dan Simmons
Image
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
Dan Simmons
Image
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
Image
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
Dan Simmons
Image
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.
Dan Simmons