Karen Lord Quotes

#1. Everything teaches, everyone preaches, all have a gospel to sell! Better the one who is honest and open in declaring an agenda than the one who fools you into believing they are only spinning a pretty fancy for beauty's sake.

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#2. Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally.
"Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea?

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#3. However, one can be telepathically connected to one with whom it is difficult to live peaceably. The ability to know another's mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.

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#4. There are other, civilised ways of dealing with the matter," Dllenahkh insisted.
Darithiven looked at him with pity. "Then, by your definition, this cannot be civilisation.

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#5. This is my universe, my time, my world. There is no going back to what was. There is only the future.

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#6. I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

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#7. Judging other humans and finding them wanting is what the Sadiri do.

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#8. Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and ... everything?

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#9. You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god.

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#10. He smiled at his glass. It seemed to be in on the joke. It fed daring and plausibility to the tiny flame of rebellion growing in his heart. Rahid

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#11. Knowledge can create unlimited credit whereas credit can only buy limited knowledge.

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#12. You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.

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#13. In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.

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#14. I am experiencing a measure of excitement combined with increasing pleasure, which is perhaps manifesting as an expression of amusement."
It was the first time he had ever used the scales to describe his emotions. "I love it when you talk dirty," I whispered ...

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#15. Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it.

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#16. I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.

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#17. This was not an Indiana Jones classic holovid; it was real life.

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#18. All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

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#19. A retreat will teach you again and again that you are neither indispensable nor self-sufficient.

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#20. Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

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#21. Let me tell you, there's no long-distance relationship like an interstellar one.

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#22. A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

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#23. Beautiful women like Neila are not interested in competitors. Without a doubt she would prefer a man with the means to display her beauty to its best advantage over a man whose beauty rivalled hers.

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#24. I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.

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