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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

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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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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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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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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