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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e68b606 | You stay with her. I'll follow it in. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 999a0bf | Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. | Dan Simmons | ||
| f69e176 | 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, .. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 06403d9 | 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.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| a3d5006 | 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" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1bedb30 | anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur" | Dan Simmons | ||
| bfd412e | Womangrove root and firefern lined the banks, and each branch and twisting | Dan Simmons | ||
| ee661b2 | Zhizn' daetsia lish' raz, i ona neschastna, uboga, otvratitel'na, zhestoka i korotka. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 4e62339 | 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. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ec96715 | 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 | ||
| 46567fb | 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 | Dan Simmons | ||
| 4b93207 | she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 30a6da3 | nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books. | Dan Simmons | ||
| bf853fc | 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 | ||
| e8d0ee6 | People scream and run for coyer. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9725c91 | 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. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 8611f80 | Anything which deceives is evil, I believe. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 5c73182 | 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. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 55012d7 | If one is to steal, steal from the forgotten masters." The" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6d21f8f | androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind | Dan Simmons | ||
| f259f8c | 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\\ | Dan Simmons | ||
| 241a2fa | If there is a God, I thought, it's a painkiller. | Dan Simmons | ||
| bdccfce | life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word. | Dan Simmons | ||
| eed82c9 | 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. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 19c2dc7 | 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. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 73c4c5b | 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 | ||
| 297f995 | driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heavens will; She can, though every face will scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 50486a7 | Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoria de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 3de2356 | More frail and illusory Than numbers written on water, Our seeking from the Buddha Felicity in the afterworld." Archbishop Breque cleared his throat and joined in the conversation. "That seems clear enough, young lady. You do not think that God will grant our prayers." Aenea shook her head. "I think that he meant two things, Your Eminence. First that the Buddha will not help us. It isn't in his job definition, so to speak. Secondly, t.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9592c0f | 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 | ||
| 6cba572 | 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 | ||
| 3ce3248 | We come into this world alone, We depart alone, This also is illusion. I will teach you the way Not to come, not to go! | Dan Simmons | ||
| 687c767 | Now he asked, his voice as careful and unslurred as only a true alcoholic's can be, whose turn it was to tell a tale. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e40696b | l`SHvt Ahbh `m hAdm hAHd SHbAmt rAvy lAhbh hzv hvA AHd htgmvlym hmvHlTym hbvddym SHbhyvt AnvSHy, hmAzn At KHl hKHAb, hAvbdn, hmgvSHmvt, hbdydvt, hTypSHvt, hhtpSHrvt vhrSHlnvt SHmtlvvym lmTSb hAnvSHy. l`SHvt Ahbh `m hAdm hnKHvn mpTSh `l SHgyAvt rbvt. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9a25715 | After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere - including the All Thing and all comm and access bands - simply ceased to be. Hundreds of thousands of citizens went insane at that moment - shocked into catatonia by the disappearance of senses which had become more important to them than sight or hearing. More hundreds of thousands of datumplane operators, including many o.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 30abb15 | Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion, | Dan Simmons | ||
| 5415b74 | In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7c3728f | Somewhere Dan Hendricks was laughing at him for his overdependency on technology. Hendricks's road-map brain would be damned useful right about now. | Matthew FitzSimmons | ||
| 0b82ab2 | emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b28a31b | Nothing could be done about it--every human above the lowest Dregs' Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere--so humans accepted their lack of privacy. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2c3e0d0 | 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 | ||
| 88354d1 | In an age where no information was inaccessible, no travel denied, such exclusion was maddening and tantalizing. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 20b6d05 | Tornarssuk | Dan Simmons | ||
| b9133ba | are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. | Dan Simmons |