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| User: | matociquala (863621) 
they must need bears
it's a great life, if you don't weaken
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| Name: | it's a great life, if you don't weaken |
| Website: | Elizabeth Bear Dot Com |
| Location: | West Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1971-09-22 |
| Bio: | Hi. I'm Elizabeth Bear. I tell lies to strangers for money.
This blog is one part commonplace, one part plate-glass window into the life of a working writer, and one-part working journal.
It's a public blog; go ahead and add, read, comment, ask questions. All I ask is that you aim for politeness, and I will do the same.
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"This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
-- Akira Kurosawa
"The work is not upon us to complete, yet neither are we free to desist from it."
-- Rabbi Tarfon
"Let no one deem me humble or weak, a woman with folded hands. I am cast to another mold: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life, glory belongs."
-- Euripedes, Medea
"Never apologize. Never explain."
-- Evelyn Waugh
"As for ideology, the Hell with it. All of it."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
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"matociquala" is Dakota for "little bear." I share a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, and though I grew up in central Connecticut, I then moved to the Mojave desert and lived there for seven years. It was... broadening. I'm back in West Hartford now.
Elizabeth Bear is my real name, but not all of it. I'm not related to Greg; "Bear" is actually one of my middle names, but my last name is Ukrainian and pronounceability has proved the better part of valor.
I maintain a fiction-mostly journal at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) elizabethbear.
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my LibraryThing
my BookCrossing page
my taggage
my geocaching page
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My lj reading list map
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Today's Sesame Street Terror Alert Level:
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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
-- Luther Burbank
"I write softcore nerdporn for elf fetishists, and you're standing between me and my beer."
--Scott Lynch
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(Man from UNCLE mood theme by sithdragn, except the bits I hacked.)
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| Pictures: | over 400 public |
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| Schools: | Rockville High School - Vernon, CT (1986 - 1989)
University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT (1989 - 1993)
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