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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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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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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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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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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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. . . 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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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 he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
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