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A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.
— Dan Simmons
I nodded, understanding nothing.
— Dan Simmons
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
— Dan Simmons
Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence.
— Dan Simmons
Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.
— Dan Simmons
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
— Dan Simmons
Well, nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.
— Dan Simmons
We all retreat into ourselves in some way.
— Dan Simmons
Sato said softly, "Bottom-san, please to understand, if you call me 'motherfucker' again, I shall be forced to kill you.
— Dan Simmons
He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.
— Dan Simmons
You "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
— Dan Simmons
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons
ameliorative. He climbed
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I
— Dan Simmons
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Life doesn't retreat.
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even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.
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Hoyt's view of hell is tactile; it is the pain which moves in him like jagged wires pulled through his veins and guts.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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said the bald little androgyny.
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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
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She returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.
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Its hard to die. Harder to live
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The words sounded like a mournful incantation.
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beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.
— Dan Simmons
A comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
— Dan Simmons
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
— Dan Simmons
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
— Dan Simmons
To be a true poet is to become God.
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It was late morning when Kassad finished his story.
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I am merely a poet dying far from home.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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- Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other]
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The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.
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People scream and run for coyer.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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[When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet]
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If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
— Dan Simmons
Seduction ... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
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Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
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The young remember most deeply
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And my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.
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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
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
— Dan Quisenberry
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
— Dan Simmons
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will. I swear I will.
— Dan Simmons
But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
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Her eyes are open but she does not see.
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Entropy is a bitch,
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
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Who was Hitler?' I said.Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing. — Dan Simmons
Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.
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