Dan Simmons - Human Quotes

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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

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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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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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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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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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