“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
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Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001. Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers, she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979). The first of these was turned into a children’s television series in 1991. During years she resided in Scotland, where she died on 9 May 2014.
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“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”
“At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.”
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“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”
“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
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“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”
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