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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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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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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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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