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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Heart
Thing
Prices
Much
Prize
Life
Trade
High
Desire
May
Matter

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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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