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"Nothing I have ever written was given the slightest deliberation. It was there in the typewriter and it came out, a total bypassing of the brain."
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C. L. MooreWhen you’re young you never doubt yourself. You never wonder if you’re — C. L. Moore
"When you’re young you never doubt yourself. You never wonder if you’re justified. But as a man gets older he learns to doubt. Whether he can do a thing—whether he should."
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Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Moore's work paved the way for many other female speculative fiction writers.
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"Beauty is as tangible as blood, in a way. It is a separate, distinct force that inhabits the bodies of men and women. You must have noticed the vacuity that accompanies perfect beauty in so many women...the force so strong that it drives out all other forces and lives vampirishly at the expense of intelligence and goodness and conscience and all else."
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"Only fools offend me, woman, and they but once."
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"There’s no such thing as a theatrical troupe without conflicts."
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"And not until then did she remember how fatal it is said to be to accept a gift from a demon. Buy, or earn it, but never accept the gift."
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"She was unbinding her turban... He watched, not breathing, a presentiment of something horrible stirring in his brain, inexplicably...The red folds loosened, and—he knew then that he had not dreamed—again a scarlet lock swung down against her cheek...a hair, was it? A lock of hair?... thick as a thick worm it fell, plumply, against that smooth cheek...more scarlet than blood and thick as a crawling worm...and like a worm it crawled."
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