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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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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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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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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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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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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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