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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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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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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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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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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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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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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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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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