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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

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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 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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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 gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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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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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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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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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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