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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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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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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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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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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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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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