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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Biotechnology
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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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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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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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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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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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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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