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Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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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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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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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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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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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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