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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

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
Closer
Gods
Dying
Bring
Death

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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
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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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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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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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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.
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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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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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It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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