Dan Simmons quotes

Dan Simmons is an American author acclaimed for his works in science fiction, horror, and fantasy. His most famous novels include the "Hyperion Cantos" series and "The Terror." He has received numerous awards for his imaginative storytelling and influential contributions to genre literature. Here are 121 of his quotes:

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Dan Simmons

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 in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

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It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

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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.

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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

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There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

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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 universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

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In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

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In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

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You have to live to really know things, my love.

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Its hard to die. Harder to live.

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Mobs have passions, not brains.

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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

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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.

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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

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Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion.

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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

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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.

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