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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Intrigue
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Getting
Times
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Intrigues

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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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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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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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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 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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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
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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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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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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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