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What you are is a question only you can answer.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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