Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

• To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Wisdom, Understanding, Ignorant

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

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  Doe, Goddess, Showers

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.314, Ballantine Books

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• There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

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  People, Ignorant, Sorcery

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• Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

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  Kings, Shadow, Words We Speak

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

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  Dream, Dark, Light

  "Heartlight".

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• Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

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  Letting Go, Lying, Exercise

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2007). “Lady of Avalon”, p.432, Penguin

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• Love is the only prayer I know.

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  Prayer, Love Is, Avalon

  "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.

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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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  Hope, Despair, Life Journey

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

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  Paganism, Goddess, Found

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• I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

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  Lasts, Left

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2007). “Lady of Avalon”, p.454, Penguin

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• The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

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  Differences, Use, Certain

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.340, Ballantine Books

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• Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

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  Children, Lying, Heart

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (1995). “The Forest House”, p.198, Penguin

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• Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

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  Faults, Speak, Burden

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton (2011). “Black Trillium”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

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  Life, Lying, Flower

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.769, Ballantine Books

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• What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

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  Memories, Power, Voice

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.38, Penguin

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• Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

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  Pain, Opposites, Wish

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.110, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

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  Brother, Fall, Men

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• There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

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  Memories, Forever, Sorrow

  "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.

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• If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

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  Soul, Looks, Messages

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.702, Ballantine Books

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• There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

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  Avalon, Faces, Truth Is

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Writing

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• A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

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  Children, Bears

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2008). “Priestess of Avalon”, p.152, Penguin

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• Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Writing, Mind, Fiction

  "The Faces of Science Fiction". Book by Patti Perret, 1984.

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• [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

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  Girl, Broken, House

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• All gods are one god.

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