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Hyperion (1989)
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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
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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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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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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
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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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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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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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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Dan Simmons
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April 4, 1948
(age 76)
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