Dan Simmons Quotes

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• It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

  Dan Simmons

  Talking, Survival, May

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.24, Spectra

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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

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Order, Roles

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Soul, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.115, Spectra

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• The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

  Dan Simmons

  Ignorance, Routes, Absolutes

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1816, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Love, Matter, Structure

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1249, Spectra

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• To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

  Dan Simmons

  Sex, Pain, Mistake

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Machines, Computer

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.560, Spectra

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• Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

  Dan Simmons

  Stupidity, Paid

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.190, Macmillan

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Reality, Mad, Poet

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra

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• Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

  Dan Simmons

  Data, Water, Dolphins

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• No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

  Dan Simmons

  Book, Abandoned, Finished

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.251, Spectra

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• A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Way, Waste

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.796, Spectra

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• Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

  Dan Simmons

  Death, Heart, Sight

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

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Knowing, Fullness

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Prayers to Broken Stones”, p.100, Spectra

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Being Strong, Humanity, Wish

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.267, Macmillan

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• I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

  Dan Simmons

  Faith, Sea, Law

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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

  Dan Simmons

  Truth, Bullets, Snipers

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra

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• Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

  Dan Simmons

  Love, Love Is, Lust

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• In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

  Dan Simmons

  Loyalty, Love Is, Dust

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.916, Spectra

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  Dan Simmons

  Trust, Art, Believe

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

  Dan Simmons

  Night, Light, Sound

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.462, Spectra

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• The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

  Dan Simmons

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK

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• God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

  Dan Simmons

  Life, Waiting, Found

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