Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
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God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
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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 more boring to listen to or read about.
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No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
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Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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Life doesn't retreat.
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I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.
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Dr. Livingston's studies helped us identify the problems.
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You'll have no trouble finding it. You just can't miss it.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was.
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Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.