Dan Simmons Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Events, Matter, Masters

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.571, Spectra

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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

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  Perfect, Creative, Mixtures

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

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• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.

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  Essence, Civilization, Ideas

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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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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Wall, Light, Law

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

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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.

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  Hero, Rocks, Water

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

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• History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

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  Dark, Historical, Different

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.231, Spectra

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

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  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 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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  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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• Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

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  Diversity, Design, Evolution

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.538, 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.

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  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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• Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

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  Book, Men, Self

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

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  Real, Reality, Imagination

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• Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

  Dan Simmons

  Real, People, Imagination

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.

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  Book, Ideas, Shadow

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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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• You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

  Dan Simmons

  Essence, Aberration, Violence

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.266, Macmillan

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