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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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 don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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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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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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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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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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