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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Save
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Truth
Doe
Honesty

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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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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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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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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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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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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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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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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