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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

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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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Nature
Time
Destroyed
Mankind
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.
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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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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
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I must decide if you deserve to die.
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I won't go back and live in the sea again.
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Generosity is never out of season.
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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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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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