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Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

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Diane Duane
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 18
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I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
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A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past. It's called a 'prophecy,' Urruah said. You may have heard of the concept.
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Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.
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All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
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You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
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It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.
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Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!
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Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
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Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.
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But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
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Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
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There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
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Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.
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The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.
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Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.
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And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.
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How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!
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Belief made no difference to the truth.
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The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.
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A warp, Nita whispered. A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole? It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)
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