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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Way
Love
Skins
Honesty
Close
Inside
Anyone
Living
Real

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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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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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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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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 principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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