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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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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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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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