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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

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
Term
Finals
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Smoke
Ancient
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Smokes
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Honorable
Steps
Engineering
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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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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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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