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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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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've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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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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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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All true wealth is biological.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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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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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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