"Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible……" — Patricia A. McKillip
"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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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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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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Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and…
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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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