Dan Simmons Quotes
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
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Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.