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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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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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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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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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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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