Quotes by Sherwood Smith - Page 1

When in doubt, be ridiculous.
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Doubt
Ridiculous
When In Doubt
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I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.
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Reader
Eager
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Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.
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Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
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Crown Duel
Faces
World
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Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
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Enough
Honor
Villain
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One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
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Gloves
Self
Stones
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We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.
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Ocean
Jason
Ransom
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When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
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Firsts
Ifs
People
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Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
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Gossip
Hurt
Stories
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Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
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Appearance
Laughing
Sorry
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Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
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Library
Lovers
My Generation
Science Fiction
Shelves
Andre
Discovered
Generation
Junior
Norton
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The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
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Passion
Rain
Tangled
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I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
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Beans
Dyslexia
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Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
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Growth
Normal
Spring
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Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.
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Men
Angry Man
Cities
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So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.
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And Love
Laughter
Wish
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As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed.
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Active
Fantasy
Scorn
Mattress
Occasionally
Supports
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They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
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Doors
Glasses
Safe
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The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
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Efficient
Effective
Largely
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Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.
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Men
Book
Names
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Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.
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Disparity
Men Women Always
Male
Authors
Women Men Young
Neatly
Pointed
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When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
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Teen
Class
Critical
Enthusiasm
Postage
Publishers
Thirteen
Typical
Total
Earn
Sending
Turned
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Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
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War
Song
Winning
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Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
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Memories
Reality
Sight
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No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.
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Men
Falling In Love
Thinking
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What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'
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Work Men Women
Work Women Respect
Male
Cultural
Depict
Domestic
Duties
Fill
Perceived
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In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.
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Dishes
My Generation
Older Women
Praise
Usual
Cluster
Thank
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If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
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Differences
Play
Water
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It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
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Gossip
Hurt
Ideas
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I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.
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Men
Eye
Feelings
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.
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Kissing
Sky
Winning
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