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Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

Janet Morris

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
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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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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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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
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Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar no army he sanctified could know defeat no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him he fought like the gods themselves.
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What is needed is never to be had without price.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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