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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Passion
Forethought
Looking
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Sensible
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Practicals
Nothing
Practical
Something
Shock
Driven
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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
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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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I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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In a dog's world, only three states existed: now, in a while, and forever. If someone left, he was gone forever, and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone forever.
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Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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