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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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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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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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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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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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