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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Inexperience
Enlightened
Overcome
Prejudice
Overcoming
Destroy
Ignorance

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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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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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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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