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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
Todd
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Anyway
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
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