Dan Simmons - Life Quotes

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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.

Dan Simmons
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.

Dan Simmons
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Dan Simmons
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

Dan Simmons
I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

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

Dan Simmons
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

Dan Simmons
Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Dan Simmons