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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
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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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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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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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'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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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