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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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
People
Dreams
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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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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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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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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