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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Librettist
Novelist
Poet
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Transvaal
South Africa
Knowing
Learn
Something
Shame
Willing

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Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
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Triple tongued is triple named
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It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
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And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
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Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
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The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
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And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.
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It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt, said Saliman quietly. The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
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Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.
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What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark? There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.
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I would rather die than stay there. Well, you might die.
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You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
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Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
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There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice, Cadvan said. The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice.
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Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.
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It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.
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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous it may never be possible it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
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