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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
Death
Closer
Gods
Dying
Bring

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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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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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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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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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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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