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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

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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
Notice
Perfect
Keep
Trying
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Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.
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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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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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Gods are nothing without their worshipers they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
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You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.
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Painful things are quickly forgotten.
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It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.
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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.
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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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Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.
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There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.
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I won't go back and live in the sea again.
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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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Generosity is never out of season.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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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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