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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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
Trying
Schizoid
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Thyself
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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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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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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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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