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The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.
DAN SIMMONS, Carrion Comfort
Seduction ... was both a science and art -- a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
My thoughts were like mercury--always shifting away before I could grab them or form them inot a cohesive shape.
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
DAN SIMMONS, Carrion Comfort
Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?
All men seemed to be self-serving, selfish, insensitive pigs, just waiting for an opportunity to act like greater self-serving, selfish, insensitive pigs.
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
DAN SIMMONS, Carrion Comfort
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
DAN SIMMONS, Carrion Comfort
Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
The human being is a frail vessel, a fleshly flagon of blood and loose guts just waiting to be spilled.
You can no more eradicate violence than you could eradicate love or hate or laughter.... The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.
DAN SIMMONS, Carrion Comfort
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
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