Dan Simmons - Beings Quotes

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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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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

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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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Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

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Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

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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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