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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

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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
Power
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Everything
Naturally
Men
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Wealth
Playing
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Anyone
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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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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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What would the world be without him, and those like him?
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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Gods are nothing without their worshipers they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
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For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
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Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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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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You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
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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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Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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