Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

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I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

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A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

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There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

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If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

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Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

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But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

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Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.

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The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

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Lancelet said, And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…

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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

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A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

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Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

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A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

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The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

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Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

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It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams…but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended.

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Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

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If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...

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We begin life with a seemingly blank slate, and, though the writing that gradually appears on that slate is not our own, our judgment of the things written thereon determines what we are and what we will become. In much the same way, our work will be judged by the use to which other people put it.

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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

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If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?

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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

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Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

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Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

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Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

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