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On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1930
Born: June 3
Died: 1999
Died: September 25
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Morgan Ives
Miriam Gardner
John Dexter
Lee Chapman
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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There's no magic secret writing is like everything else ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
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If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.
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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
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A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
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Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.
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[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.
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Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.
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I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.
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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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But this is my truth I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.
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Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.
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Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
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