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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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All true wealth is biological.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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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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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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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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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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