Elizabeth Bear Quotes
You’d never break this one. You’d never even bend her. She’d die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
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By thy cold breast and serpent smile,By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,By that most seeming virtuous eye,By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;By the perfection of thine artWhich pass'd for human thine own heart;By thy delight in others' pain,And by thy brotherhood of Cain,I call upon thee! and compelThyself to be thy proper Hell!
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Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma
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You’d never break this one. You’d never even bend her. She’d die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.
