"It may be important to write a book……" — Sheri S. Tepper
"It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all."
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26 Quotes by Sheri S. Tepper
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Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth…
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Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to…
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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive…
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I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the…
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can…
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Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
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Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor…
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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
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There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy…
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Science fiction still is an idea genre.
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I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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