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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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