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01Undated

And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God’s goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh . . .

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

02Undated

But even the longest day wears to sunset.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

03Undated

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

04Undated

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

05Undated

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.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

06Undated

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

07Undated

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote

08Undated

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.

Marion Zimmer Bradley / quote