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Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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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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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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