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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
Tried
Succeed
Struggle
Impossible
Knowing
Dies
Living
Something
Struggling

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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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