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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.

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
Real
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Skins
Honesty
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Inside
Anyone
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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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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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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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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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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