Dan Simmons Quotes - Page 5

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

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Mind, Lifetime

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.72, Spectra

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• The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Childhood, Remember

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.2723, Spectra

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• Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Confusing, Emotion

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Olympos”, p.74, Harper Collins

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

  Dan Simmons

  Life, Loss, Way

  Dan Simmons (1996). “Endymion”, Spectra Books

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• Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

  Dan Simmons

  Leadership, Political, Age

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.607, Spectra

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• Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

  Dan Simmons

  Law, Being Ignored, Habit

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.422, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Faith, Bullshit, Degrees

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.480, Macmillan

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• No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

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  Life, Blessing, Long

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.2863, Spectra

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• Mobs have passions, not brains.

  Dan Simmons

  Passion, Brain

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.316, Spectra

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• The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

  Dan Simmons

  Love, Sleep, Too Much

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.499, Spectra

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.270, Spectra

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• Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

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  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.236, Spectra

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

  Dan Simmons

  Art, Drunk, Quality

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.653, Spectra

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• I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

  Dan Simmons

  Space, Boundaries, I Loved You

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1971, Spectra

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• The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.

  Dan Simmons

  Giving, Advice, Grease

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The never-ending competition between writers hasn't changed between 1868 and 2000. I used to belong to writers' workshops with other professionals, but that becomes impossible after a while. Everyone's on a different step of the career ladder. Jealousy doesn't have to erupt into murder and burying someone in Wells Cathedral, but it is always there.

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  Competition, Different, Impossible

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

  Dan Simmons

  Technology, Humanity, Evolution

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

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  War, Age, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until people were ready to make use of it. The same thing happens in literary circles. The truth is, I'm not terribly interested in Victorian times; I'm interested in Victorian writers. I'm interested in most eras of history, but not the Victorian Era especially. I was interested in the John Franklin Expedition. I was interested in these last five weird years of Dickens' life. And I just have to take the age that comes with all that when I write about it.

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  Writing, People, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And this is due to a vow that I made myself when I started writing - that if I had any success at all, I would not be bound to one form of writing. That I would write what moves me. The only way I can see me surviving and doing more than one book is to present the readers with a Dan Simmons novel, with whatever tropes and protocols from whatever genre I want to borrow them. If that builds a Dan Simmons readership, well then, okay. Otherwise, forget about it. I'd rather drive a truck.

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  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on you. Me, I get bored very easily. As a writer I get bored even faster than I do in real life. I mean, I like fast cars; I've driven a lot of racecars. You need some stimulation. If I find something that seems too difficult to do, too difficult to research, or beyond your writing abilities, it's a perfect invitation to try it.

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  Real, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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