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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
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Everything
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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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One man can make another's life so much better.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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You must become like yourself.
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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
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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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I must decide if you deserve to die.
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Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.
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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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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.
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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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Gods have bloody hands.
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Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.
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