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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: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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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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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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All true wealth is biological.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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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.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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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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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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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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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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