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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Loved
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Centered
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Adventure
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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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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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