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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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