"Only yesterday a young woman came to me……" — Patricia A. McKillip
"Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that."
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31 Quotes by Patricia A. McKillip
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...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no…
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Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and…
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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into…
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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…
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at…
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When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room…
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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,…
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She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression…
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If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must…
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Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake.…
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Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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