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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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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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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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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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