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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
Ohio
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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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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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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