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For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

Janet Morris

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Myth
Communication
Common
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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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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.
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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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What is needed is never to be had without price.
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It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
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Love sees all hate is blind.
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Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
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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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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
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I'm just a weapon of the god.
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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