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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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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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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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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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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
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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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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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