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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Everything
Horror
Fantasy
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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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 don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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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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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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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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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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