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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Chicago
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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.
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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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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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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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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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?
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