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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
Destroy
Ignorance
Inexperience
Enlightened
Overcome
Prejudice
Overcoming

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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 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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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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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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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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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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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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