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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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When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power,…
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I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're…
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