Marion Zimmer Bradley quotes

Marion Zimmer Bradley was an American author, best known for her works in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Her most famous novel is "The Mists of Avalon," which reimagines Arthurian legends from a female perspective. She remains an influential figure in speculative fiction and feminist literature. Here are 28 of her quotes:

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Lancelet said, "And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”. View quote
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A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead. View quote
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The horror genre-which I define as perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all. View quote
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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. View quote
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It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams...but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended. View quote
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A trail without beginning has no end. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. "Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know. View quote
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My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in. View quote
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"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Our world is rotten, but I've no confidence that the new world will be better! (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot? View quote
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Often, in writing, granting the basic skill of writing a literate English sentence-which can no longer be taken for granted even in college graduates-all it takes is determination. View quote
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Love is the only prayer I know. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
All gods are one god. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. View quote
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He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. View quote
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A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. View quote
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I never thought that I was very intelligent. View quote
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I wasn't a child at 13, were you? View quote
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No man or woman can live another's fate. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 3, 1930
Died: September 25, 1999
Quotes count: 28
Wikipedia: Marion Zimmer Bradley

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