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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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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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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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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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