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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
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Sleep
Called
Chance
Next
Much
Good
Soldiers
Never
Soldier
Pass

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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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