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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
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Soldiers
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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