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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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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Children
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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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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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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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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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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