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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
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Myth
Communication

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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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Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.
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What would the world be without him, and those like him?
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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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It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.
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What is needed is never to be had without price.
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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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Gods have bloody hands.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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I'm reverent from a distance.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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You must become like yourself.
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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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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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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.
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