Quotes by Kate Horsley

About Kate Horsley:

Kate Horsley is the pen name of Kate Parker, an author of numerous works of historical fiction three of which are rooted in the Old West. Parker is a professor of English at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. She has a lifelong flirtation with Zen after reading Alan Watts. Her published novels include:
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Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the world the alter on which plants and animals lay down their own lives for the sustenance of others, and on which w...

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Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke f...

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Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when th...

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Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especial...

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I learned regret in the ruins of Tarbfhlaith. I regretted that ambition had ruled my heart instead of affection for my kin. And with the lesson of regret came the gratitude for having life still to move my lips and limbs, and to speak kind words to a...

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I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he chooses ignorance because he is lay, then he is a fool, for the ignorant are put to hard labor digging and hauling stones for masters w...

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It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

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Author Bio

  • NameKate Horsley
  • DescriptionHistorical fiction writer
  • Born1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America