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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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All true wealth is biological.
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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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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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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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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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