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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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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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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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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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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
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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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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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