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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

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
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Much
Good
Soldiers
Never
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Sleep
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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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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 think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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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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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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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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