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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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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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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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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
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What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
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There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.
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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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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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