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Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. – Dan Simmons

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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. – Dan Simmons

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Theres a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I dont believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. – Dan Simmons

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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? Its not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. – Ken Wilber

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