Dan Simmons Short Quotes

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Sometimes... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

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

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Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

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If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

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All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

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Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

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

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Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

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Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

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There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

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Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

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

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

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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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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

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

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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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If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

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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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The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

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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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Fate and victory shift... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

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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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The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

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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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The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

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We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

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