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• Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two books. But that meant nothing in the long run. Right now, to be honest, Wilkie Collins is what he deserved to be back then: a footnote, an almost lost memory. And he knew he would become that.

  Dan Simmons

  Running, Memories, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Past, Rising, Way

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• This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

  Dan Simmons

  Support, Language, Nightmare

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

  Dan Simmons

  Art, Moving, Artist

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.463, Spectra

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

  Dan Simmons

  Catholic, Church, Predictions

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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.

  Dan Simmons

  Fate, Men, Arrows

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• Mobs have passions, not brains.

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  Passion, Brain

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.316, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Flower, Grief

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• There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

  Dan Simmons

  Fall, Serious Illness, Black

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1125, 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.

  Dan Simmons

  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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• 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.

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Intelligent, Cells

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

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

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

  Dan Simmons

  Real, Reality, Imagination

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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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