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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Pain
Fall
Wanted
Men
Breathtaking
Love
Fallen
Beauty
Happiness
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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My home is not a place, it is people.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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