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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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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 make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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