We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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T.S. Eliot
Advice, " Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
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Scott Lynch
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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William Faulkner
I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When Sorrow walked with...
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Robert Browning Hamilton
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Greg Bear
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings – stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
I will learn by screwing up.
Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real.
