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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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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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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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 am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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