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Dan Simmons Quotes

Dan Simmons quotes

American Author, Writer April 4, 1948

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The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung. Dan Simmons
Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "God is the creature, not the creator."
God is the creature, not the creator. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: " pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a..."
... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ... Dan Simmons
In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes. Dan Simmons
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. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and..."
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Dan Simmons
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. Dan Simmons
A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as 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 spermatazoa attacking an ovum. Dan Simmons
Stand as I did after throwing the switch, a murderer, a betrayer, but still proud, feet firmly planted on Hyperion’s shifting sand, head held high, fist raised against the sky, crying “A plague on both your houses! Dan Simmons
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings."
Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings. Dan Simmons
You want to be a hero,” he repeated. “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
But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long..."
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. Dan Simmons

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