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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Collect
Later
Cutting
Universe
Around

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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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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.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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