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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: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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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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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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