Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
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I don't think anybody has a handle on it. If they continue to move it, it would be a concern as the season gets closer.
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And now the solider toiled upward through an extremely steep ascent over rock outcroppings and ravines. At the top, they saw something few white men had ever seen: the preternaturally flat expanse of the high plains, covered only with short buffalo grass. 'As far as the eye could reach,' wrote Carter, 'not an object of any kind or living thing was in sight. It stretched out before us- one uninterrupted plain, only to be compared with the ocean in its vastness.' The scene was terrifying even for men with experience of the plains. 'This is a terrible country,' railroad worker Arthur Ferguson had written a few years earlier, 'the stillness, wildness, and desolation of which is awful... Not a tree to be seen... and it seemed as if the solitude had been eternal.
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I always play women I would date.
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Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
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My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
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The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.
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Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.
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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
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Concentration may be my weak point.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
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Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
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Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
