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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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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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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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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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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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