We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose. " "Is that a lie?" "It's … - Sheri S. Tepper

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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Sheri S. Tepper

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose. " "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children. " She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

Children, Lying, Mother, Sighed, Suppose

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With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

Achieving, Expectations, Future, Past, Soul, Won

Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.

Bent, Children, Forest, Like, Mother, Rain

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Idea, Ideas, Science, Two

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

Book, Come, Important, Like, Writing

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