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  1. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    A thin line of beard along his jawline served to accent the sharpness of his countenance as surely as blood on a knife blade.
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  2. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maui-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    I explored religions and serious drinking, finding more hope of lasting solace in the latter.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.
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  5. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.
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  6. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Gladstone nodded. She had been sitting casually on the edge of a massive desk which the tabloids said had once belonged to an assassinated President-not Lincoln-of the pre-Mistake USA,
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  7. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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  8. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences.
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  9. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion,
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  10. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Now he asked, his voice as careful and unslurred as only a true alcoholic's can be, whose turn it was to tell a tale.
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  11. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    in Theo – quiet, efficient Theo – to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero's to get him through the night. Trusting in the unimportance of his posting to get him through life."
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  12. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind
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