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The firstdown team for this planet must have had a fixation on animals. Horse, Bear, Eagle. For three days we were creeping down the east coast of Equus over an irregular coastline called the Mane. We've spent the last day making the crossing of a short span of the Middle Sea to a large island called Cat Key. Today we are offloading passengers and freight at Felix, the "major city" of the island."
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I did not forget that there was a panic button. The problem is simple--when there is real panic, one does not immediately think of buttons. The
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It says something about the type of writing I had been doing that my muse could flee without my noticing. For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt. When one is writing--really writing--it is as if one is given a f..
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And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.
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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
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as a dozen pinpoints of fierce light expanded into ripples and shock waves of plasma explosions far out in space. "I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis," he said in low, tight tones. "To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell." Father"
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Chudovishchnoe sushchestvo vdokhnulo v sebia dushu Khikki. No potom ono otshatnulos', potriaslo ogromnoi golovoi, razdrazhenno fyrknulo, slovno otplevyvaias' ot kakoi-to merzosti. Ono
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All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or the all too shakable convinction of faith. And if they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.
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faith
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Kogda imeesh' delo s durakami, spustia kakoe-to vremia nachinaesh' ponimat' khod ikh myslei.
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Niemand hat je gesagt, dass das Universum normal ist.
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humor
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But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes. Thus,
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This is poetry. You're writing about Heaven's Gate and the Caribou Herd, but what comes across is loneliness, displacement, angst, and a cynical look at humanity.
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the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg's day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.
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It isn't hard being a hack writer. Between Dying Earth II and Dying Earth IX, six standard years had passed relatively painlessly. My research was meager, my plots formulaic, my characters cardboard, my prose preliterate, and my free time was my own.
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the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
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Dan Simmons |
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I meant only to point out that in hopelessness there is always hope.
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Or the king could die. Or the horse could die. Or he could teach the horse how to talk.
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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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You stay with her. I'll follow it in.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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Deil tikho opustil golovu, znaia, chto vse eto -- sputnik, i peshcheru butlegerov, i mnogoe mnogoe drugoe -- mogut povtorit'sia i zavtra, i cherez nedeliu, no chto etot moment -- druz'ia sidevshie riadom, edva slyshnye shorokhi letnei nochi, golosa roditelei snizu, chuvstvo kakoi-to beskonechnosti leta, kotoroe kak obychno prines avgust -- chto etot moment edinstvennyi i nepovtorimy. I chto on dolzhen byt' sokhranen. I poka Maik i Lourens, ..
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Manmut oseti kako mu se organski slojevi jeze kada je shvatio da je naglas progovorio preko privatne linije. "Nista. Zbog cega ljubav nije dovela do odgovora na zagonetku zivota?" "Zbog toga sto je Prust znao - a njegovi likovi to otkrivaju - da ni ljubav, ni njen plemenitiji rodak, prijateljstvo, nikada ne mogu da prezive entropijska seciva ljubomore, dosade, navike i egoizma", rece Orfi i Manmut prvi put u toku njihove direktne komunikaci..
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head. "The Core has devised a parasitic, organic device called the cruciform," she said. "It ... brings back ... the dead. After a few generations, the humans will be retarded, listless, and without a future, but their neurons will still serve Core purposes." Singh"
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anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur"
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Womangrove root and firefern lined the banks, and each branch and twisting
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Zhizn' daetsia lish' raz, i ona neschastna, uboga, otvratitel'na, zhestoka i korotka.
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In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God.
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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."
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each time I hear the bells toll the brief notes of the early hours of the morn, I imagine ghostly hands pulling rotting bell ropes. Or perhaps rotting hands pulling ghostly bell ropes; I don't know which image suits my macabre fancies this endless night. Fever
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she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.
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Dan Simmons |
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nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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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.
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People scream and run for coyer.
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Finally, Weintraub had dealt with refusing all sacrifice, refusing any relationship with God except one of mutual respect and honest attempts at mutual understanding. He wrote about the multiple deaths of God and the need for a divine resurrection now that humankind had constructed its own gods and released them on the universe.
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Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.
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There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.
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If one is to steal, steal from the forgotten masters." The"
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Dan Simmons |
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androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind
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There is a war up there where time creaks which spans galaxies and eons back and forward to the Big Bang and the Final Implosion\\
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If there is a God, I thought, it's a painkiller.
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Dan Simmons |
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life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.
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Dan Simmons |
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Il genoma umano, l'anima umana, diffida dell'omogeneita, Raul. E sempre pronto a cogliere al volo l'occasione, a correre il rischio del cambiamento e della diversita.
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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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."
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