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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Ran

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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
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You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
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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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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of danger on the floor around them. Look, it's danger, don't step in it!
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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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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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Evil working in subtler fashion marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.
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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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