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Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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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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My home is not a place, it is people.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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