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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
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Columbus
Ohio
Love
Skins
Honesty
Close
Inside
Anyone
Living
Real
Way

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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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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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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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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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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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