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“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.”

Quote by Sherwood Smith

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Sherwood Smith is an American author known for her fantasy and science fiction novels. Born in 1951, she began writing in 1983. Smith's works often explore themes of gender, power, and social structures. more

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