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Dan Simmons Quote: “Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.”

351. “Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt.”

352. “We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it’s better for a man to stay inside his own mind.”

353. “Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it’s better for a man to stay inside his own mind.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagerness of their diets.”

354. “Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagerness of their diets.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Call me Mort, Sol.”

355. “Call me Mort, Sol.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Strange,” said Natalie. “What?” “Two gunshot wounds, pneumonia, a concussion, three broken ribs, and enough cuts and bruises to keep a football team happy for a full season.” “Jews are hard to kill.”

356. “Strange,” said Natalie. “What?” “Two gunshot wounds, pneumonia, a concussion, three broken ribs, and enough cuts and bruises to keep a football team happy for a full season.” “Jews are hard to kill.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “He hated it when she had too much to drink and tried to hide it, acting the perfect lady – but Harlen could always tell by the precise diction, the slow movements, and the way she got all sloppy and tried to hug him.”

357. “He hated it when she had too much to drink and tried to hide it, acting the perfect lady – but Harlen could always tell by the precise diction, the slow movements, and the way she got all sloppy and tried to hug him.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “The only thing that had changed was that the bills were bigger.”

358. “The only thing that had changed was that the bills were bigger.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “The Church might have died before this revelation could have brought new life to it. But.”

359. “The Church might have died before this revelation could have brought new life to it. But.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Being eaten by a kraken less than a hundred kilometers from Conamara Chaos Central would be embarrassing.”

360. “Being eaten by a kraken less than a hundred kilometers from Conamara Chaos Central would be embarrassing.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “You might already be able to tell that I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. I offer no apologies.”

361. “You might already be able to tell that I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. I offer no apologies.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov’s design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger – theoretically, his beloved niece – from tumbling off backward.”

362. “Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov’s design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger – theoretically, his beloved niece – from tumbling off backward.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “And then you’ll do what I say? “Yes.” “Take us where I’ll tell you to?” “Yes.” “No hidden overrides?” “None that I know of.”

363. “And then you’ll do what I say? “Yes.” “Take us where I’ll tell you to?” “Yes.” “No hidden overrides?” “None that I know of.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “As literature has descended into mere entertainment via a deliberate vandalism and diminishment of our once-proud language, authors also have begun leaping around between and into their characters’ minds for no other reason than that they can.”

364. “As literature has descended into mere entertainment via a deliberate vandalism and diminishment of our once-proud language, authors also have begun leaping around between and into their characters’ minds for no other reason than that they can.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Sarai gripped his hand. “Do you think you’re the only one who has had the dream?” “Dream?” managed Sol. She.”

365. “Sarai gripped his hand. “Do you think you’re the only one who has had the dream?” “Dream?” managed Sol. She.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “In an age where no information was inaccessible, no travel denied, such exclusion was maddening and tantalizing.”

366. “In an age where no information was inaccessible, no travel denied, such exclusion was maddening and tantalizing.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “For years I have carried on silent conversations with Siri, framing questions to myself for future discussion with her, and it suddenly strikes me with cold clarity that we will never again sit together and talk. An emptiness begins to grow inside me. Should.”

367. “For years I have carried on silent conversations with Siri, framing questions to myself for future discussion with her, and it suddenly strikes me with cold clarity that we will never again sit together and talk. An emptiness begins to grow inside me. Should.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.”

368. “Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.”

369. “Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.”

370. “To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “You realize that everything you hear and see in this conference is highly classified?” I did not treat the statement as a question.”

371. “You realize that everything you hear and see in this conference is highly classified?” I did not treat the statement as a question.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “People scream and run for coyer.”

372. “People scream and run for coyer.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “I teach him how to pair such technique with masculine or feminine caesura, or the joys of alternating iambic foot with unstressed pyrrhic, or the self-indulgence of the frequent spondee. I.”

373. “I teach him how to pair such technique with masculine or feminine caesura, or the joys of alternating iambic foot with unstressed pyrrhic, or the self-indulgence of the frequent spondee. I.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “The surge became a roaring, shouting, screaming mass of rioters; at that moment, the sum of the crowd’s IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.”

374. “The surge became a roaring, shouting, screaming mass of rioters; at that moment, the sum of the crowd’s IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Remember, the economy wasn’t really global then, and it depended upon private money institutions called banks, gold reserves, and the value of physical money – actual coins and pieces of paper that were supposed to be worth something. It was all a consensual hallucination, of course, and in the 1930s, the hallucination turned nightmare.”

375. “Remember, the economy wasn’t really global then, and it depended upon private money institutions called banks, gold reserves, and the value of physical money – actual coins and pieces of paper that were supposed to be worth something. It was all a consensual hallucination, of course, and in the 1930s, the hallucination turned nightmare.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty list?’ ‘No, sir,’ says Lempriere, ’more like sixty percent.”

376. “The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty list?’ ‘No, sir,’ says Lempriere, ’more like sixty percent.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Silenus’s true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter age, the Consul knew, the odds were that the poet was quite mad. As.”

377. “Silenus’s true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter age, the Consul knew, the odds were that the poet was quite mad. As.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “IT IS NECESSARY wrote Silenus’s own hand against the unyielding cold of the Shrike’s chest. Blood dripped on.”

378. “IT IS NECESSARY wrote Silenus’s own hand against the unyielding cold of the Shrike’s chest. Blood dripped on.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “But who the hell cares if the flowers bloom if no one is around to see them, to smell them?”

379. “But who the hell cares if the flowers bloom if no one is around to see them, to smell them?”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.”

380. “It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “You’ve had your chance, Richard. Scott’s a big boy now, and if he wants to spend a few years chanting mantras and giving away his lunch money to some bearded horse’s ass with a Jehovah Complex, well, you’ve had your chance to help him, so what do you say you just get on with your screwed-up life, Richard E. Baedecker.”

381. “You’ve had your chance, Richard. Scott’s a big boy now, and if he wants to spend a few years chanting mantras and giving away his lunch money to some bearded horse’s ass with a Jehovah Complex, well, you’ve had your chance to help him, so what do you say you just get on with your screwed-up life, Richard E. Baedecker.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “I am merely a poet dying far from home.”

382. “I am merely a poet dying far from home.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “The whiskey never seemed to compromise the man’s competence.”

383. “The whiskey never seemed to compromise the man’s competence.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “M. Executive, I have explained the variables that require an alteration in our battle plan. Shall I begin this briefing again?”

384. “M. Executive, I have explained the variables that require an alteration in our battle plan. Shall I begin this briefing again?”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Siri, am I doing the right thing?”

385. “Siri, am I doing the right thing?”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “I speculated, not for the first time, that the sanity of the nation would be much improved if children and adults were required by law to eat in separate public establishments.”

386. “I speculated, not for the first time, that the sanity of the nation would be much improved if children and adults were required by law to eat in separate public establishments.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “We lived in Boston, in an apartment where even the rats had to walk stoop-shouldered.”

387. “We lived in Boston, in an apartment where even the rats had to walk stoop-shouldered.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “He had always distrusted people who asked to speak freely or who vowed to speak candidly or who used the expression “frankly.”

388. “He had always distrusted people who asked to speak freely or who vowed to speak candidly or who used the expression “frankly.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “There is the sudden sound of pennants stirring on their staffs as the wind comes up.”

389. “There is the sudden sound of pennants stirring on their staffs as the wind comes up.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “I don’t know,” says Hunt. “That doesn’t sound like something a poet whose reputation has lasted a thousand years would have written.”

390. “I don’t know,” says Hunt. “That doesn’t sound like something a poet whose reputation has lasted a thousand years would have written.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Trusting in Theo – quiet, efficient Theo – to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero’s to get him through the night. Trusting in the unimportance of his posting to get him through life.”

391. “Trusting in Theo – quiet, efficient Theo – to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero’s to get him through the night. Trusting in the unimportance of his posting to get him through life.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “The Consul dozed, snapping awake each time with a sense of falling, hands gripping the edge of the rigid hawking mat. He realized that he should have tied himself in with the single rope he had brought in his bag, but he didn’t want to land – the.”

392. “The Consul dozed, snapping awake each time with a sense of falling, hands gripping the edge of the rigid hawking mat. He realized that he should have tied himself in with the single rope he had brought in his bag, but he didn’t want to land – the.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “This is why we Hunt, woman. Look at yourself in the mirror! Do you want to die an old woman just because you’re tired of using them? Acch!” Willi stood and turned his back on us.”

393. “This is why we Hunt, woman. Look at yourself in the mirror! Do you want to die an old woman just because you’re tired of using them? Acch!” Willi stood and turned his back on us.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Brawne set her hand on the thing’s broad chest and pushed. The.”

394. “Brawne set her hand on the thing’s broad chest and pushed. The.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “But, in the end, it was none of these things, of course. It was only Hrothgar’s claustrophobic mead hall with the monster waiting in the darkness without. We had our Grendel, to be sure. We even had our Hrothgar if one squints a bit at sad King Billy’s poor slouched profile.”

395. “But, in the end, it was none of these things, of course. It was only Hrothgar’s claustrophobic mead hall with the monster waiting in the darkness without. We had our Grendel, to be sure. We even had our Hrothgar if one squints a bit at sad King Billy’s poor slouched profile.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality,” she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. “The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”

396. “Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality,” she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. “The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Not merely to preserve a few species from Old Earth, but to find unity in diversity. To spread the seed of humankind to all worlds, diverse environments, while treating as sacred the diversity of life we find elsewhere.”

397. “Not merely to preserve a few species from Old Earth, but to find unity in diversity. To spread the seed of humankind to all worlds, diverse environments, while treating as sacred the diversity of life we find elsewhere.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “At first the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, but I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septem, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-standard-g freedom of the majority of the rooms. In.”

398. “At first the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, but I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septem, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-standard-g freedom of the majority of the rooms. In.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Soon she would have to wake, tend the fire, serve the men, care for the younger children, and face the end of a childhood she had barely known. Soon she would become the property of a man other than her father, and on that day she would receive the traditional Hindu blessing – “May you have eight sons.”

399. “Soon she would have to wake, tend the fire, serve the men, care for the younger children, and face the end of a childhood she had barely known. Soon she would become the property of a man other than her father, and on that day she would receive the traditional Hindu blessing – “May you have eight sons.”

— Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Quote: “Human thought can be described as a standing wavefront. Sort of a superhologram. Or, maybe more precisely, a hologram containing a few million smaller holograms.”

400. “Human thought can be described as a standing wavefront. Sort of a superhologram. Or, maybe more precisely, a hologram containing a few million smaller holograms.”

— Dan Simmons

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