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#42452
Words are the supreme objects. These are things with spirit.

Dan Simmons
(Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1)

#42453
Mr Thorne would have brought me the morning paper on set, but I had long learned that reading the follies and scandals of this world only serves to desecrate the sunrise.

Dan Simmons
(The Evil Exchequer, Volume 1)

#42454
In the beginning was the verb. Then came the word processor, and their damn thought processor. The death of literature ensued.

Dan Simmons
(The Hyperion Cycle, Volume 1: Hyperion)

#42455
He shits the square dung, whispers the captain with the breath.

Dan Simmons
(Ilium)

#42456
On the old earth, in the 20th century, a fast food chain made a fortune just by selling its customers dead cow fried in grease, seasoned with carcinogens and packaged in hydrocarbon-based foam.

Dan Simmons
(Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1)

#42457
Do you know what we have in common with all these works that we are passionate about, Mahnmut? Mahnmut thinks for a moment. "No," he said. - They are inexhaustible. - Inexhaustible? - We never finished going around. If we were humans, these novels, poems and plays would evoke houses where we always find an unknown room, a secret staircase, a hidden attic..; that kind of thing.

Dan Simmons
(Ilium)

#42458
Sobriety driving is rare in this country. (Albin Michel, 315)

Dan Simmons
(The Sons of Darkness)

#42459
She interposed herself between the sun and him, creating an eclipse that surrounded his black curls with a halo.

Dan Simmons
(Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1)

#42460
"See you, as I demonstrate in detail in my next and modest book The Conquest of the West, the supremacy of the Whites, acquired from great struggle against the savages occupying the hostile lands of this continent, has given birth to a new human race: the American race."

Dan Simmons
(The Fifth Heart)

#42461
While literature has been reduced to mere entertainment through deliberate vandalism and impoverishment of our once noble language, authors have become accustomed to coming and going between the heads of their heroes for the simple reason they can.

Dan Simmons
(The Fifth Heart)

#42462
The naked dead man looked pale and vulnerable - torn throat, scarred chest, long white fingers, pale belly, flaccid genitalia, gaunt legs. Death, even in this age of resurrection, leaves little dignity even to those who have maintained their self-control throughout their lives.

Dan Simmons
(The Hyperion Cycle, Volume 4: The Awakening of Endymion)

#42463
And when Death comes, wouldn't we be ready, for most of us, to give up all these pages, all this life wasted in fly paws and scribbles, for one more day, a single day fully lived and felt? What price would we writers be willing to pay for this one extra day spent in the company of those we ignored while we were locked in scraping and scribbling during our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation? Would we exchange all these pages for an hour, one hour? All our books in exchange for a real minute?

Dan Simmons
(Drood)

#42464
I'm sick. I have fever, tremors, yesterday all day, I vomited a black bile. The rain is deafening. Orbital mirrors illuminate the top of the clouds all night long. The skies are ablaze.

Dan Simmons
(Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1)

#42465
Hockenberry, who had devoted his studies and life to classical letters, had little scientific knowledge, but he had seen enough science fiction films in his time to know what the consequences of a sudden decompression were: eyes that swelled to the point of becoming fat as grapefruits, eardrums exploding in blood geysers, the epidermis and tissues that dilate , heat and tear, the space vacuum offering no resistance to the internal pressures of the body.

Dan Simmons
(Olympos)

#42466
Well, as far as I'm concerned (and like everything I write, it's all about me), I volunteered for the same reasons that, in 1977, when I was picnicking with friends, had pushed me to brag to them about a little-known film that I had just seen. "It's a fabulous thing! I was delirious. Original! Finally an exciting film like we haven't done in years! Go and see him! " What is the title of this work?" my friends asked me. (Beware of moviegoers who speak in these terms.) "Star Wars. - Ah... "Smiling contemptuous, new brie bite." Science fiction." That's the end of it. (from the intro to Poppy Z. Brite's Tales of the Green Fairy)

Dan Simmons
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