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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
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Without
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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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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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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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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