Dan Simmons

“She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark -…

— Dan Simmons

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a…

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“And then Kassad was being helped out of his simulation creche at the Olympus Command School and the other cadets and instructors…

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“You want to be a hero,” he repeated. “You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather…

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“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to…

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“But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time.…

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“The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. ‘And if you did it…

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“The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through…

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“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the…

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“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is…

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I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.…

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“The universe deepened at that moment, the music of the spheres grew from a mere chorus to a symphony as triumphant as…

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“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its…

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“Haven’t you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are—at this instant—poling their raft down some river just beyond…

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“That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their…

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“Silenus’s true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter…

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I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a…

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“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging…

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“The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus…

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“Look,’ said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped…

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Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few…

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“Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so…

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“If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends…

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“ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more…

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“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,'…

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Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can…

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“Francis Crozier now understood that the most desirable and erotic thing a woman could wear were the many modest layers such as…

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