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Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Change
Hard
Things
Unless
Hold
Dead
Dies
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Past

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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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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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Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.
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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. One of the tentacle-monster ones. Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
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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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Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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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 like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
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