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“You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.”

Quote by Dan Simmons

Book:Carrion Comfort

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Carrion Comfort

Carrion Comfort is a work of speculative fiction that delves into the psychological and physical struggles of characters in a world ravaged by a mysterious and deadly disease. The narrative follows a group of survivors as they navigate a landscape of scarcity and despair, examining the resilience of the human spirit and the ethical dilemmas that arise in extreme circumstances. more

Author

Dan Simmons is a renowned American author, born on April 4, 1948. His works span across multiple genres including science fiction, horror, and historical fiction, with his novels 'Hyperion' and 'The End of Eternity' being particularly acclaimed. Simmons is praised for his rich imagination and profound thematic explorations. more

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“War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.”

Children Long Doe War Pain Night Suffering Knowing Conditions Temporary Fever Scourge Long Nights

Book:The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.”

Light Night Sound Existence Heat Lightning

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Source: Rise of Endymion

“Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.”

Ideas Objects Gas Poisonous Cubes

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“The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.”

Way Reality Waiting Events Wind Blow Forests Burning Smoke Sparks Embers Personal Courage

Author:Dan Simmons

“If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.”

Ifs Done Our Time

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“Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.”

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Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.”

Design Evolution Diversity Infinite

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“Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”

Seems Space Silence Comfort Infinite Certainty Duality Cozy Infinite Space

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Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.”

Ifs Pain Interesting Attention Boring Things In Life And Off

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Source: Rise of Endymion

“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.”

World Has Beens Faces Evil Names Voice Powerful Numbers Attention Share Century Mass Victim Monsters Graves Sheer Powerless Faceless

Book:Carrion Comfort

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