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One Quotes by Dan Simmons
- Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense…
- How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
- The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small…
- It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
- No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
- A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water…
- It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
- Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief…
- To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in…
- The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects…
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