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The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
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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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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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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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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Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
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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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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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Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
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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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And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
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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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Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
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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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On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight
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