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Wholly homelike was the wedge of apple pie with whipped cream, and a piece of yellow cheese beside it, sharp and dry and crumbly, just right to cut the rich sweetness of the pie filling and the buttery taste of the crust.
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It wasn't taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change.
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Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south."
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The knife he held was obsidian, sharp enough to cut a dream.
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It just took so much effort to get anything done without machinery, particularly since nobody really knew how to do a lot of the necessary things by hand. There were descriptions in books, but they always turned out to be maddeningly incomplete and/or no substitute for the knowledge experience built into your muscles and nerves.
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We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all,
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if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.
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Children do make life more interesting, he thought.
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I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.
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It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.
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the Covenstead at the center of the town . . . no, the Saints called it a Meeting House. The center was a big hall lit by clerestory windows around the edge where the bright light of dawn showed. One half was full of pews, the second--oddly--equipped with basketball hoops and a recessed
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We climbed the Sea-End Tower in the lost city of Toronto as the High King and his comrades did on the Quest. It's still standing, our lake-boat touched there on our way east,
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''And yet half a beast is the great God Pan To laugh as he sits by the river; Making a legend out of a man. The true Gods weep for the loss and the pain For the reed that will never grow again As a reed, with the reeds, by the river.''
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from that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River
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''May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin' man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.''
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They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In
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His grandmother had said to him once, smiling slightly, that if you compelled people to behave as if they believed something eventually all but the strongest-willed really did start to believe it, because it was easier on their pride than admitting every moment in the privacy of their soul that they were pretending.
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pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order's new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing
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Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people
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leadership
self-esteem
organization
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Even God knew mortality and change when He became flesh in this fallen world, and we must remain supple before time's gales.
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Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward,
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Lay on, MacDuff Lay on with the soup, and the Haggis and stuff; For though 'tis said you are our foe What side my bread's buttered on you bet I know!
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the swift daring strength of his youth and the steady hand of his ripe manhood we have had, but the wisdom of his deep age is taken from us and that we will never have, spilled with the blood he shed for us! Mourn, then, mourn! For he is lost and gone and we will send him to the sky and the earth and the sea.
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like biting down on copper foil.
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He wasn't afraid a pipe now and then would kill him. As far as he could tell, a lot of the old Americans had been quivering daisies who thought they'd live forever if only they were careful enough, as if life was worth living that way. Some of them had believed eating butter was bad for you, of all things.
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the only
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How have I survived uncorrupted this long, surrounded by oil-tongued flatterers like you,
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Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.
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dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I'm fairly sure that was the wrong decision.
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The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!
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being crazy is a job qualification.
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What was it Da said? Orlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it's a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil's conscripted farmers.
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