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Janet Morris

(1946) Science Fiction Writer United States

197 quotes in 718 categories

Janet Morris talks about surviving tough times and holding on when help is missing. She mentions how pain fades quickly and how each soul must know its limits. She also sees fantasy writing as a long‑standing tradition that stretches back to ancient storytellers.

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Janet Morris is a science fiction writer from the United States, best known for Shadows of Sanctuary.

Quick Facts About Janet Morris

Born: May 25, 1946
Nationality: United States
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Notable works: Shadows of Sanctuary

About Janet Morris

Janet Ellen Morris (1946–2024) was an American writer of fantasy, science‑fiction, and nonfiction, and she also created a non‑lethal weapons idea for the U.S. military.

Quotes by Janet Morris

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

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Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

Betrayal

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Live to fight on other days.

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Generosity is never out of season.

Commitment

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Gods have bloody hands.

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Every man heals himself.

Destiny

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The sun is new every day

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I'm just a weapon of the god.

God

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For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

Chance

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One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

Demand

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If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.

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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

Gods

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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Cities

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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.

Brotherhood

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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

Embarrassment

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What would the world be without him, and those like him?

Commitment

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It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just…

Balance

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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

Death

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I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away…

Army

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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…

Angry

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Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.

Education

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We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Got hurt

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Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

Army

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Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

Destiny

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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree,…

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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself…

Alive

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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us.…

Allegiance

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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he…

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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood.…

Battle

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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara…

Belief

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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching…

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Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In…

Alive

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Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for…

Battle

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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have…

Age

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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…

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When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting…

Body

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And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,…

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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to…

Battle

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If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind…

Body

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War's balance will prevail.

Balance

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Janet Morris by topic

Inspirational (74) Love (64) War (34) Loyalty (31) Men (29) Commitment (27) Ontology (23) God (21) Death (21) Life (19) Battle (19) Destiny (18) Risk (16) Time (12) Responsibility (12) Soul (11) Heart (11) Fate (11)