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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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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 wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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