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Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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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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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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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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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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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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