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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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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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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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 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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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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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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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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