“Context is to data what water is to a dolphin”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“... The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
Dan Simmons
Born place: in Peoria, Illinois, The United States
Born date April 4, 1948
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“If people care about you, they won’t give up on you, no matter what you’ve done in the past or what you do in the future.
We aren’t programmed that way. We’re made to find hope in the most hopeless of places and in the people that seem the least likely to deserve it, because they really need it the most, and something in us knows that, at least subconsciously.
It’s what makes us human. No one is unworthy. Not even you. If people want to have faith in you, let them. And really, you can’t stop them. It’s not up to you.”
― Lindy Zart, quote from Roomies
“Where are we going?” Josiah shook as he spoke. “Home.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn’t the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the “intuitive” also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.”
― Adelle Waldman, quote from The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
“He's wearing black jeans and an amazingly hot black biker jacket over a white T-shirt.His normally casual bedhead is not perfectly styled bedhead. He also has light blue skin, but his tattoo are understated, just dots in a straight line that go ear from ear, crossing the bridge of his nose. He props himself against the doorway, and my head goes blank.
"I like the viney things you have going on there."
I clear my throat because it has suddenly gone dry.
"Thanks. You look very..." I trail off because i almost said elf-a-licious”
― Leah Rae Miller, quote from The Summer I Became a Nerd
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