Elizabeth Bear Quotes
It’s funny, ain’t it, that nobody holds giving men the illusion they want about themselves against wives, though they hold it against the sisters. And nobody holds it against the illusionists, though they do against spiritualists. I’m not quite sure how to explain what I’m driving at, except it seems to me that these things is all linked.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
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He who once gains such love carries the dog's life in his hand. But let him who reads note well, and remember that there is only one coin that can purchase such love, and that is kindness. The coin, too, must be genuine. Kindness merely expressed will not do, it must be felt.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.
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People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.
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"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
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It’s funny, ain’t it, that nobody holds giving men the illusion they want about themselves against wives, though they hold it against the sisters. And nobody holds it against the illusionists, though they do against spiritualists. I’m not quite sure how to explain what I’m driving at, except it seems to me that these things is all linked.
