Elizabeth Moon Quotes

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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

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There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.

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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

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