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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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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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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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