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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
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Columbus
Ohio
Around
Collect
Later
Cutting
Universe

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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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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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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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