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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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All true wealth is biological.
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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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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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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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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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