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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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I believe in deeds, not words.
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Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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