Dan Simmons

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#literature #writing #death

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#inspirational #networking #humor

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#ignorance #courage

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

#irony #salvation #self-destruction #salvation

Mobs have passions, not brains. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#mobs #passion #intelligence

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#experience #pain #experience

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#good-things #life #sleep #life

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

— Dan Simmons

#time-travel #love

You have to live to really know things, my love ↗

— Dan Simmons

#experience

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#humor