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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Honesty
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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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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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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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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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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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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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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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.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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