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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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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 do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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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 am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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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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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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