Andre Norton quotes

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. (Andre Norton)
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. View quote
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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. View quote
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I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. View quote
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Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need. View quote
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There's no night without stars. View quote
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Either the law exists, or it does not. View quote
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Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city. View quote
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Does mud care which cloak it bespatters? View quote
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Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity. View quote
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There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city. (Andre Norton)
A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized. View quote
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It is always impossible-he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind-for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him. View quote
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Treasure! That word, which had always been so exciting, meant something different now. Fafnir had taken the treasure and turned from man into monster because of his greed for it. Mimir, who had been Sigurd's master and good friend-when the treasure had lain before him, he, too, became a monster, in another way. Then Sigurd had made his choice, to leave the evil, and so he had gone away a hero. View quote
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Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune. View quote
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From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster. View quote
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He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse. View quote
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You can't play the role of thug all over the galaxy and not store up in the subconscious a fine line of private fears and remembered enemies. View quote
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Their tribal system is strictly matriarchal, which follows a pattern even Terra once knew: the fertile earth mother and her priestesses, who became the witches when the gods overruled the goddesses. View quote
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And the opposite of dreams are facts! View quote
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Only darkness could not be held off by the will of men. (Andre Norton)