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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Elizabeth Bear

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Elizabeth Bear
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 22
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky
Sarah Wishnevsky
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Lifetime
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Meanness
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Beauty
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