Category: Quotes

Dan Simmons. The Fall of Hyperion

A lesser light asks Ummon: What are the activities of a sramana Ummon answers: I have not the slightest idea. The dim light then says: Why haven’t you any idea? Ummon replies: I just want to keep my no-idea

Dan Simmons. The Fall of Hyperion

So, you see, in the beginning was the Word. And the Word became flesh in the cloth of human universe. But only a poet can expand the universe by paving a way to new realities, like ship with Hawking engine…

People are telling not what they thinking. And they’re thinking not the way they are feeling. It is completely unclear what they mean. It seems they said “yes”, but later you find out that it can look like “no”. And…

Dan Simmons. Hyperion Cantos

On Heaven’s Gate, I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and…

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