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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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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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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.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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