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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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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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 you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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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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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 gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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