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Dan Simmons, né le 4 avril 1948 à Peoria , est un écrivain américain connu principalement pour ses romans de science-fiction, d'horreur et policiers. Ses livres sont publiés dans 27 pays. Wikipedia  

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Dan Simmons Citations

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“Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures…indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 11 (p. 187)

“While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 422)

“The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 227)

“War does not call for judgment,” I said, “merely survival.”

Dan Simmons livre The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 14 (p. 105)

“Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 3 (p. 49)

“Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.”

Dan Simmons livre Hypérion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 191)

“The Void Which Binds is touched by all of us who have wept with happiness, bidden a lover good-bye, been exalted with orgasm, stood over the grave of a loved one, or watched our baby open his or her eyes for the first time.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

Aenea is looking at me as she speaks, and I feel the gooseflesh rise along my arms.
“The Void Which Binds is always under and above the surface of our thoughts and senses,” she continues, invisible but as present as the breathing of our beloved next to us in the night. Its actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 400)

“Pascal’s Wager never appealed to me. It seems logically…shallow.”

Dan Simmons livre The Rise of Endymion

“Perhaps because it posits only two choices,” said Aenea. Somewhere in the desert night, an owl made a short, sharp sound. “Spiritual resurrection and immortality or death and damnation,” she said.
“Those last two aren’t the same thing,” I said.
“No, but perhaps to someone like Blaise Pascal they were. Someone terrified of ‘the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.’”
“A spiritual agoraphobic,” I said.
Aenea laughed. The sound was so sincere and spontaneous that I could not help loving it. Her.
“Religion seems to have always offered 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.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 166)

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