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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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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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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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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It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
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Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions
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What seemed to interest and absorb her most was that all that filth, all that chaos of broken limbs and dug-out eyes and split heads was then covered—literally covered—by a church dedicated to San Giovanni Battista and by a monastery of Augustinian hermits who had a valuable library. Ah, ah—she laughed—underneath there’s blood and above, God, peace, prayer, and books.
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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.
