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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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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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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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All true wealth is biological.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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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