Frasi di Dan Simmons (121 frasi, pagina 4)

cap. 8, p. 130
Il risveglio di Endymion
Variante: "Tu non capisci, Raul, ma loro capiscono! Già parlano di me come di un virus. Hanno ragione: è esattamente ciò che potrei essere per la Chiesa. Un virus, come l'antico ceppo HIV sulla Vecchia Terra o come la Morte Rossa che imperversò nei pianeti della Periferia dopo la Caduta. Un virus che invade ogni cellula dell'organismo e ne riprogramma il DNA... o almeno infetta un certo numero di cellule, per cui l'organismo crolla, vieno meno... muore."

“Mark Twain, nel suo modo familiare, espresse questa opinione: "la differenza fra la parola giusta e la parola quasi giusta è la differenza tra il fulmine e la lucciola". Una definizione azzeccata, ma incompleta. Durante quei lunghi mesi in cui su Porta del Paradiso iniziai i Canti scoprii che la differenza fra trovare la parola giusta e accettare la parola quasi giusta era la differenza fra l'essere colpito da un fulmine e assistere semplicemente alla sua caduta.”

Dan Simmons libro Hyperion

cap. 2, p. 174
Hyperion

Dan Simmons: Frasi in inglese

“Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures…indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 11 (p. 187)

“The story of Rachel’s unique illness was no secret in Crawford, of course. The fact of it had spread through the college the first year of Rachel’s return and the entire town knew soon after. Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial—some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else’s misfortune out of their voices and gazes—but mostly the community had folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Hyperion

Origine: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 4 (p. 286)

““The Core knows what Teilhard de Chardin and other sentimentalists refused to acknowledge: evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 406)

“While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 422)

“The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 227)

“War does not call for judgment,” I said, “merely survival.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro La caduta di Hyperion

Origine: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 14 (p. 105)

“There is no guarantee of happiness, wisdom, or long life if you drink of me this evening,” she says, very softly. There is no nirvana. There is no salvation. There is no afterlife. There is no rebirth. There is only immense knowledge—of the heart as well as the mind—and the potential for great discoveries, great adventures, and and a guarantee of more of the pain and terror that make up so much of our short lives.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 408)

“If our society ever opted for Orwell’s Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person’s activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Hyperion

Origine: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 5 (p. 345)

“Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 3 (p. 49)

“As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 33 (p. 677)

“Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Hyperion

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

“The Void Which Binds is touched by all of us who have wept with happiness, bidden a lover good-bye, been exalted with orgasm, stood over the grave of a loved one, or watched our baby open his or her eyes for the first time.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

Aenea is looking at me as she speaks, and I feel the gooseflesh rise along my arms.
“The Void Which Binds is always under and above the surface of our thoughts and senses,” she continues, invisible but as present as the breathing of our beloved next to us in the night. Its actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.”
Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 400)

“Pascal’s Wager never appealed to me. It seems logically…shallow.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Il risveglio di Endymion

“Perhaps because it posits only two choices,” said Aenea. Somewhere in the desert night, an owl made a short, sharp sound. “Spiritual resurrection and immortality or death and damnation,” she said.
“Those last two aren’t the same thing,” I said.
“No, but perhaps to someone like Blaise Pascal they were. Someone terrified of ‘the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.’”
“A spiritual agoraphobic,” I said.
Aenea laughed. The sound was so sincere and spontaneous that I could not help loving it. Her.
“Religion seems to have always offered that false duality,” she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. “The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”
Origine: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 166)

“The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.”

Help us translate this quote

Dan Simmons libro Endymion

Origine: Endymion (1996), Chapter 34 (p. 344)