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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
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Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
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