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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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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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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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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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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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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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