"You will eat this and go to sleep,……" — Patricia Briggs
"You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back."
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285 Quotes by Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs has 285 quotes on this site.
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand…
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Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power…
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The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became…
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in…
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only…
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds…
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude…
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving…
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when…
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going…
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these…
— Hippocrates
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He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents…
— Albert Speer
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans…
— Murray Bookchin
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Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that…
— Avicenna
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior)…
— Aubrey Daniels
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking…
— Heidi Julavits
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you…
— Hillary Jordan
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I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only…
— Tennessee Williams
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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