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.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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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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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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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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Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
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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.
