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“Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,” said my young friend. “A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere…consensual idiocy.”

Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 464)

“My own guess is that it’s a myth fueled by the same hunger for superstitious verities that drives other religions.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 11 (p. 91)

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

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Source: Hyperion
Context: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.

“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.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

Dan Simmons quote: “The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”

“The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”

Dan Simmons book Endymion

Source: Endymion

“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 431)

“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.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”

Dan Simmons book Endymion

Source: Endymion

“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)

“Mobs have passions, not brains.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 266)

“Its hard to die. Harder to live”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“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.”

Dan Simmons book The Terror

Source: The Terror

“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.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 186)

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

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“We are all eaters of souls.”

Dan Simmons book The Terror

Source: The Terror

“You have to live to really know things, my love”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“You are quite acute for a mental stillborn”

Dan Simmons

“The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 105)