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Anne McCaffrey 20
American-Irish novelist 1926–2011Related quotes

The Limits of State Action (1792)

“How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!”
O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
Epistularum

“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
"A Poet of the Actual", p. 266
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
Source: The Corrections

p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)