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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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