Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

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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?

Marion Zimmer Bradley
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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Our world is rotten, but I've no confidence that the new world will be better!

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The gods do not require that we all be conquerors, or even that we all be wise, but only that we serve the truth that we are given until we can pass it on.

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There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

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My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in.

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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, Viviane said. Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

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What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

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