Marion Zimmer Bradley Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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