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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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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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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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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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