Sheri S. Tepper Short Quotes

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Fear needn't be grounded in fact to cause problems.

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Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

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What's coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!

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We believe that nothing worthy of our worship would want our worship.

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Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

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Infanticide and infant neglect exist in inverse ratio to the accessibility of abortion services.

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They looked like men. That was the trouble with devils, Carolyn thought. Too often they looked like men.

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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

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All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

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Picture this:
A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.

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The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

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The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

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I am myself, though from moment to moment something else seems to be looking on. Whatever will be required of me, however, can best be done if I remember who I am.

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One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.

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We must be able to find out what really is.... It is not enough merely to tell stories about what exists. We must go out into the world again. The sign has come. Therefore, build ships!

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She knew... everything. She had no words for what she knew. The pause became anticipatory silence. There were no words she could use for the reality and truth and understanding she had been given.

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Words? Not really. Mankind is a good word. She set down her glass with a thump. Or humankind. I'm afraid we've spent a lot of feminist energy on meaningless symbols rather than essential functions.

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