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Patricia A. McKillip has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to…
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Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad…
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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind,…
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But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes…
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
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When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you…
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The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
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What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you…
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She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the…
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Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms.…
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If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done.…
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Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those…
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Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love…
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But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very…
— Leo Tolstoy
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You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to…
— J M Coetzee
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