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:

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...”.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

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The horror genre-which I define as perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.

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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

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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.

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A trail without beginning has no end.

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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.

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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.

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"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

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Love is the only prayer I know.

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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.

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All gods are one god.

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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.

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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.

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A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

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I never thought that I was very intelligent.

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I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

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No man or woman can live another's fate.

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