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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Storm
Knew
Heaven

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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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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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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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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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