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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
Time
Destroyed
Mankind
Takes
Rights
Nature

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Gods are nothing without their worshipers they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
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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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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
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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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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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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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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
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I'm reverent from a distance.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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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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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
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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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Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
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