"...the sweetest temptation could be that which was……" — Piers Anthony
"...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish."
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54 Quotes by Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony has 54 quotes on this site.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is…
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued…
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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view…
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie…
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not…
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I…
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More Foolish Quotes
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
— Jane Austen
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In…
— Lucille Ball
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
— Aeschylus
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like…
— Bill Bryson
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
— Cher
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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