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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

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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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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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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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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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All true wealth is biological.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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