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

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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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Ohio
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Bleeding
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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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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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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 wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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