Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. In the end . . . past honor, past life, past caring . . . In the end will be the Word.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Aenea heard the music of the spheres. She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . It has no plan, no point, no hidden… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“They . . . are . . . so. . . sorry, ” she whispered. “The machine brings back no . .… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“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… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“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… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
