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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

Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future — Dan Simmons

You'll have to ask him in the next life," said Sol tiredly. "He's dead. — Dan Simmons

I nodded, understanding nothing. — Dan Simmons

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

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

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid. — 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

apocalyptic statuary of the post-Hegira expansionist period. I — Dan Simmons

We all retreat into ourselves in some way. — Dan Simmons

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

Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected. — Dan Simmons

ameliorative. He climbed — Dan Simmons

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit. — Dan Simmons

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I — Dan Simmons

Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. — Dan Simmons

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. — Dan Simmons

Life doesn't retreat. — Dan Simmons

even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton. — Dan Simmons

Hoyt's view of hell is tactile; it is the pain which moves in him like jagged wires pulled through his veins and guts. — Dan Simmons

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

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? — Dan Simmons

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars. — Dan Simmons

said the bald little androgyny. — Dan Simmons

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. — Dan Simmons

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves. — Dan Simmons

Was being greeted by a silent, smiling band of bald, retarded children. — Dan Simmons

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd — Dan Simmons

This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars. — Dan Simmons

She returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia. — Dan Simmons

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us — Dan Simmons

Its hard to die. Harder to live — Dan Simmons

The words sounded like a mournful incantation. — Dan Simmons

[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick] — Dan Simmons

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion. — Dan Simmons

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

I have often been called insane by those who underestimate the power of poetry. — Dan Simmons

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

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals. — Dan Simmons

What had John Keats said about Negative Capability - holding two opposite ideas in one's mind at the same time without straining to reconcile them? — Dan Simmons

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

He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses. — 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. — Dan Simmons

All good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. — Dan Simmons

That's all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of Abraham! — Dan Simmons

It was late morning when Kassad finished his story. — Dan Simmons

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind? — Dan Simmons

Odd how the daily imperatives persist even in the face of collective disaster. — Dan Simmons

He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. — Dan Simmons

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist. — Dan Simmons

I am merely a poet dying far from home. — Dan Simmons

I did not forget that there was a panic button. The problem is simple - when there is real panic, one does not immediately think of buttons. The — Dan Simmons

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. — Dan Simmons

In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God. — Dan Simmons

- Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other] — Dan Simmons

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

The day is perfect and I hate it for being so. — Dan Simmons

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. — Dan Simmons

People scream and run for coyer. — Dan Simmons

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

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer — Dan Simmons

[When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet] — Dan Simmons

No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst. — Dan Simmons

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow. — Dan Simmons

But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. — Dan Simmons

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons

Seduction ... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity. — Dan Simmons

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. — Dan Simmons

The young remember most deeply — Dan Simmons

And my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000. — Dan Simmons

It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long. — Dan Simmons

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

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan. — Dan Simmons

[H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. — Dan Simmons

will. I swear I will. — Dan Simmons

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. — Dan Simmons

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings. — Dan Simmons

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

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars. — Dan Simmons

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. — Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. — Dan Simmons

Her eyes are open but she does not see. — Dan Simmons

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

Entropy is a bitch, — Dan Simmons

Mobs have passions, not brains. — Dan Simmons

Marmon Hamlit on "AllNet Now!" issued the final deathblow: "Oh, the poetry thing from Whathisname - couldn't read it. Didn't try." Tyrena — Dan Simmons

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. — Dan Simmons

There is a war up there where time creaks which spans galaxies and eons back and forward to the Big Bang and the Final Implosion — Dan Simmons