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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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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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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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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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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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