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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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 there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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