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Compromise is an imperfect act.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Imperfect
Compromise

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Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
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That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens
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Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
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I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice
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I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.
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I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.
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I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?
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I`m not a morning person.
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Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
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Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.
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I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.
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Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
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Anita can speak for herself, Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play. And pigs fly, I said. You don't believe me? Not hardly, I said.
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When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
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Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.
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