Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jacqueline Carey's Popular Quotes

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

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It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the a…

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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

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All knowledge is worth having

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Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

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That which yields is not always weak.

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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

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