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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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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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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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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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