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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
Mercedes Lackey
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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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 you would rise, do so alone.
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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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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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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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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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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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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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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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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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