Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

Anne McCaffrey
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

Anne McCaffrey
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

Anne McCaffrey
Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth

Anne McCaffrey
Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day

Anne McCaffrey
Very few people can stand the whole, complete, unvarnished truth.

Anne McCaffrey
You're too honest to be up against us crook politicians.

Anne McCaffrey
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Anne McCaffrey
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

Anne McCaffrey