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I'm reverent from a distance.

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
Reverent
Ontology
Distance
Belief

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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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Generosity is never out of season.
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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
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Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
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You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
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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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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
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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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Arrows are cheap you're expensive.
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It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.
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Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.
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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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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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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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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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