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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
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Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
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Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.
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If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
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Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
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Gods have bloody hands.
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You must become like yourself.
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This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.
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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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