Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
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“I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.”
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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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“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.”
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“I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. 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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“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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“... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”
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“The truth is not so good a story.”
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“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.”
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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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“All gods are one god.”
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“There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever”
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“I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself”
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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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“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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“A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.”
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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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“I wasn't a child at 13, were you?”
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“On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight”
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“I never thought that I was very intelligent”
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“I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts”
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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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