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Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
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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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Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
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A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.
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Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
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Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
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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.
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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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Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
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I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.
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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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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
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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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This is every writer's nightmare—the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...
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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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There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
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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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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
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Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
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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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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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Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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Dan Simmons
Born:
April 4, 1948
(age 76)
Bio:
Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles.
Known for:
Hyperion (1989)
The Terror (2007)
Endymion (1996)
Drood: A Novel (2009)
Ilium (2003)
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