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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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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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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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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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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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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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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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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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