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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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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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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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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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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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