Dan Simmons Quotes
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Thus evolved some members of the Core-not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
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If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'
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Choose again.
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'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.
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'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'
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We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.
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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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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
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Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.