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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
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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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Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.
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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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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!
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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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