Dan Simmons Quotes

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• There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have…
• Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
• The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.
• Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to…
• Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
• The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
• History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
• Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
• The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined…
• It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
• Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
• The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
• Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and…
• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
• Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense…
• 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…
• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
• The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

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