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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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Three things never anger or you'll not live for long A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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I think I know why you never married, Sarah. Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.
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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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She just dropped it and ran!!
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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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