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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
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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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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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