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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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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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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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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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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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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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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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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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