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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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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
Certainly
Domesticated
Animal
Infuriating
Ever
Proudest
Humans
Bravest
Perverse
Noblest
Courageous
Horse

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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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 do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
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