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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

Anne McCaffrey

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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
Dies
Living
Something
Struggling
Tried
Succeed
Struggle
Impossible
Knowing

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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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