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Wizards are a secretive lot.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Butte
Montana
Secretive
Wizards

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I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia. Hey, he's not that bad, Warren said. Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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Any idiot can put up a website.
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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
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I told them, he said in a clear, carrying voice, that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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