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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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
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Lee Chapman
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
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Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
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Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
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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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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.
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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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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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Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
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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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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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On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight
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For there is no higher religion than the Truth.
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... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones
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