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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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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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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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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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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 have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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