Elizabeth Bear Quotes
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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There always have been funny women.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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There is no gardening without humility
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
