God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly. Dan Simmons More Quotes by Dan Simmons More Quotes From Dan Simmons Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two books. But that meant nothing in the long run. Right now, to be honest, Wilkie Collins is what he deserved to be back then: a footnote, an almost lost memory. And he knew he would become that. Dan Simmons running memories book I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing. Dan Simmons simple people thinking Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move. Dan Simmons artist art moving Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. Dan Simmons snipers bullets truth Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. Dan Simmons arrows fate men As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction Dan Simmons predictions catholic church What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? Dan Simmons geography childhood real Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos. Dan Simmons essence civilization ideas There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. Dan Simmons trust believe art Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. Dan Simmons movie four three How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind? Dan Simmons lifetime mind memories 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 communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know". Dan Simmons media community house It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice. Dan Simmons welcome lasts understanding Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories? Dan Simmons confusing emotion memories Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight. Dan Simmons sight heart death There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism. Dan Simmons wall light law Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. Dan Simmons being-ignored habit law If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow. Dan Simmons endymion forever religion If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves. Dan Simmons would-be mind insanity There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius. Dan Simmons serious-illness black fall
