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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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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
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Wolf
Things
Anger
Never
Wrong
Men
Woman
Sense
Three
Power
Live
Cubs

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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 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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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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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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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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
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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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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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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