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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

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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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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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Painful things are quickly forgotten.
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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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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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The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.
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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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