Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes
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A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
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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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What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
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I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. 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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All gods are one god.
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I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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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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Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
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If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
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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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One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!
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Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
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The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.
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A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
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I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
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Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
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Never name the well from which you will not drink.
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If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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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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From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.
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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!
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Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.
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Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.
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Love is the only prayer I know.
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I never thought that I was very intelligent
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