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• Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

  Dan Simmons

  Absurd, Seems

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.2518, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Long, Humanity, Evolution

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1836, Spectra

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• Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

  Dan Simmons

  Space, Silence, Comfort

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.2195, Spectra

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Design, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.487, Spectra

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• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

  Dan Simmons

  Average, Years, Long

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• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Inspired, Terrified

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• Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

  Dan Simmons

  War, Lessons, May

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.721, Spectra

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Hero, Rocks, Water

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.75, Spectra

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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Wall, Light, Law

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

  Dan Simmons

  Real, Childhood, Geography

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Lying, Expression

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.234, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Economy, Petroleum

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.547, Spectra

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• Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

  Dan Simmons

  Truth, Powerful, Skeletons

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.239, Spectra

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• It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

  Dan Simmons

  Understanding, Lasts, Welcome

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.32, Spectra

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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  Dan Simmons

  Moving, Careers, Truth Is

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

  Dan Simmons

  Life, Real, Way

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.286, Spectra

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Writing, Common Sense

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Ios, Phrases, Want

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• The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

  Dan Simmons

  Media, House, Community

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.352, Spectra

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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Unusual, Being A Teacher

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

  Dan Simmons

  Ignorance, Shields, Losing

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.332, Spectra

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• Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

  Dan Simmons

  Rome, Barbarians, Ruins

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.571, Spectra

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• Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

  Dan Simmons

  Perfect, Creative, Mixtures

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.261, Spectra

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