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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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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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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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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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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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
Lois McMaster Bujold
One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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