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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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?
Mercedes Lackey
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
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 only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Mercedes Lackey
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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Three things never anger or you'll not live for long A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
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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.
Mercedes Lackey
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
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
Mercedes Lackey
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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
Mercedes Lackey
