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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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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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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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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