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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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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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