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Дэн Симмонс — американский писатель-фантаст.

✵ 4. Апрель 1948

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Дэн Симмонс цитаты

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„Последние пятьсот лет мы только и делаем, что разглагольствуем о духе первооткрывательства, словно и не замечая, в какое болото превратилась человеческая вселенная.“

Дэн Симмонс

болото, вселенная
Источник: проза

О Вселенной
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„Уильям Гэсс, один из именитейших писателей двадцатого века, как-то заметил в одном из своих интервью: «Слова являются объектами высшего порядка. Это вещи сознания».
И в самом деле, они чисты и трансцендентальны, как любая Идея, когда-либо бросавшая тень в Платонову пещеру наших ощущений. Но они еще и проводники лжи и иллюзий.
Слова заводят мысль на бесконечные тропы самообмана: большую часть своей сознательной жизни мы проводим в мысленных чертогах, построенных из слов, а значит, лишены объективности, без которой не увидеть чудовищных искажений, привносимых языком в действительность.“

Дэн Симмонс книга Гиперион

мысль
Источник: Гиперион

О сознании , Об идеях , О жизни

Дэн Симмонс: Цитаты на английском языке

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

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

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

“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.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Rise of Endymion

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

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Источник: Hyperion
Контексте: “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.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

Вариант: 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.
Источник: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: 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.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion

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

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Dan Simmons книга Endymion

Источник: Endymion

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

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

“Mobs have passions, not brains.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

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

“Its hard to die. Harder to live”

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

Источник: 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.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Terror

Источник: 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.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: 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”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion

“We are all eaters of souls.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Terror

Источник: The Terror

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

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion

“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.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

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

“Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called “public’s right to know.””

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 4 (p. 287)

“In the beginning was the Word.
In the end…past honor, past life, past caring…
In the end will be the Word.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 233)

“I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 1 (p. 90)

“I thought—To lose all this forever?
And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Rise of Endymion

Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 163)

“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

Источник: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 472)

“I am of no faith,” said Aenea. “If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Rise of Endymion

Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 371)

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

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Dan Simmons книга Гиперион

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

“Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.”

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Dan Simmons книга Endymion

Источник: Endymion (1996), Chapter 25 (p. 198)

“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.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

Источник: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 29 (pp. 226-227)

“It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.”

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Dan Simmons книга The Fall of Hyperion

Источник: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 51)

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