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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Rude
Childhood
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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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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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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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 only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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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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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
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Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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